Quotes About Familiarity

I found a few books I knew which was like meeting old friends in a strange place

Both Kreizler and I had seen all this before, but familiarity did not breed acceptance.

Don't forget that déjà vu is the word that when you look it up the dictionary says, "You've looked this up before, haven't you?

But seeing someone is not the same as knowing them.

Her hands were freezing, just like they always were, so I warmed them, just like I always did.

And the kiss feels like something completely new. But it also feels like something deeply known.

When Allyson smiles, Willem is reminded of a sunrise. A bit of light, then more of it, then a burst of brightness. A sunrise is something you can see all the time and still marvel at. Maybe that is why her smile feels so familiar. He has seen many sunrises

But today it feels as though home has come to him.

I've always known where to find you, Cody.

My dad used to say that when I was born I looked so totally familiar

When I was with him, I felt like I already knew him

As if I couldn't pick you out of a crowd of thousands, lass." - Puck to Gillian

One smell of brimstone makes the whole world kin.

Repeated exposure to fear-inducing stimuli creates familiarity, which in turn greatly reduces anxiety.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship...

His heart ached in such a familiar way, and the very familiarity of it pained him.

In the torpor of the afternoon the remembered road had the slightly menacing and elusive familiarity of a place in a dream when one thinks: I have been here, yet where is it and what is going to happen?

I felt such a stranger there, like a poor lodger. One must be with one's own people.

He felt irritably dissatisfied with himself. Then his old huge familiar misery gradually returned like an old friend.

Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you've been away. It's as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream. They say you have to live in a place to know it, but you have to come fresh tae really see it.

It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know...

We are all acquaintances now

to enjoy her remaining years of good health before she was defeated by decrepitude. She wanted to live abroad, where the daily challenges kept her mind occupied and her heart in relative calm, because in Chile she was crushed by the weight of the familiar, its routines and limitations. Back there she felt she was condemned to be a lonely old woman besieged by pointless memories; in another country, there could be surprises and opportunities.

tranquila a solas con otra mujer. Lucía comprobó que Cheryl era como la había descrito