Quotes About Familiarity

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

Like the vacationer who returns to a beloved summer house year after year, the addicted reader opens book three or four or eleven in a given series and is thoroughly at home in the locale—its by now familiar native characters, the verbal shrubbery and the narrative floorboards that occasionally creak.

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

I paused for a moment with the strangest feeling of reverse déjà vu. Instead of getting the sense that I'd seen something before, I felt like I hadn't seen it before, even though I knew I had.

More like him than she'd ever imagined possible. His brown eyes were warm, his brown skin speckled with dirt from the road, his broad face comfortingly familiar. Inside the great void of despair that had filled her since her father's death, she felt a pinprick of hope. And then Rollan reached out and took her hand. His fingers were warm. Meilin had never been so aware of the beating of her heart.

Everybody thinks they know me

Oh, I think so. Why do we love anybody, after all? Because they have some connection to us. Because they are a part of us. Because their shapes and faces are familiar, and we are not happy if those shapes and faces are missing from our lives.

I spent four hours last night on the Internet, reading accounts of women who suffer from their moods in ways that feel so familiar—they want to run away from their life half the month, and the other half, life feels fine.

You came back to me because I was a habit.

I hate her." "Yes. I know. In fact, I think the entire universe knows.

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

I have a good time watching Nick At Night with the old shows on there. I love to see I Love Lucy, although I've seen them many, many times. I think it's a security factor, it's like your blanket.

A relationship takes place between two people across space and time, and suddenly no one seems like a stranger.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

They had always been comfortable together. She could hardly bear to be in his company now and to feel a stranger.

Yet it could be no one else but him. There was a certain feeling about being with Christopher that she had forgotten, a feeling of safeness, of rightness.

I asked on my Facebook page recently how many people are rereaders and was surprised that the overwhelming majority of those who answered are. So am I. There is something very comforting about meeting old friends again within the pages of a loved book. It's a bit like coming home.

She was in the presence of a stranger, of a man she had never seen before, yet one she had known all her life and perhaps even before that.

The trouble is that I have grown accustomed to worrying about you.

You do know her rather well, your Grace, he said with respect. Eversleigh regarded his brother-in-law steadily. Of course, he said. I happen to love her, you see.

One look at her had brought on that familiar sensation of homecoming.

Even at a distance, Jack thought the commander-in-chief looked familiar, very familiar. But he couldn't figure out

Just as human nature is the same everywhere, so it is recognizably the same as it was in the past. A Shakespeare play is about motives and predicaments and feelings and personalities that are instantly familiar. Falstaff's bombast, Iago's cunning, Leontes's jealousy, Rosalind's strength, and Malvolio's embarrassment have not changed in four hundred years. Shakespeare was writing about the same human nature that we know today. Only