Quotes About Familiar

He never had a first read on the nightstand, not if he wanted to sleep, so he settled in with the familiar and fascinating

This is the paradoxical responsibility of the reader: to replenish the strangeness of the novel by making connections with the familiar.

Easy-peasy, George-and-Weezy.

They were treated to the same Randall hospitality, the travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather, and the ones so imaginative in their monstrousness that the mind refused to accommodate them.

Cora's mother and Ava grew up on the plantation at the same time. They were treated to the same Randall hospitality, the travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather, and the ones so imaginative in their monstrousness that the mind refused to accommodate them.

They were treated to the same Randall hospitality, the travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather, and the ones so imaginative in their monstrousness that the mind refused to accommodate them. Sometimes such an experience bound one person to another; just as often the shame of one's powerlessness made all witnesses into enemies.

Old books, yes! They are the true comforters; and principally because they are old and familiar. Many excellent new tales and poems and dramas are added yearly to the catalogues, and and some of these in time will stand beside the great companions under discussion; but only Time (and you and I and all other lovers of good books) will bring about their survival.

Or is anger, I wondered, somehow, the familiar, the attendant sprite of power?

the moon stood watch over the familiar statue of a poet that looked like a snowman

The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Cain—and the password, "Indemnity." Given how rapidly management changed at the Beacon-Light, it was entirely plausible that this familiar

And they would do what they always did.

experienced local pilots, familiar with the seas and tides, were valuable to a visitor like Drake.

She recognized it at once: love, one-way deep adoration that bounced off and did not bounce back; careful, quiet love that didn't care and went on anyway. It was too familiar to be surprising

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

As all partings foreshadow the great final one, - so, empty rooms, bereft of a familiar presence, mournfully whisper what your room and what mine must one day be.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us! Call Estella.

Il male si presenta sempre in qualche forma familiare.

There was a familiar, hard bitterness in him now, and a curiosity he could not deny, and a third thing, like the quickening hammer of a pulse, beneath both of these.

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.

Their blissfully soft texture calmed me but alerted me at the same time. I couldn't explain the gentle spark of light that dripped off the edges. And of course, the aqua trim felt way too familiar.