Familiar Quotes

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He stepped toward her, and her heart just ached from it. His face was so handsome, and so dear, and so perfectly wonderfully familiar. She… — Julia Quinn
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages… — Lloyd Alexander
He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have… — Boris Pasternak
She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed.,… — Sarah Dessen
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision… — Don DeLillo
Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams. — Suzanne Collins
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges… — Peter Matthiessen
We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds. — Roger Ebert
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… — William Makepeace Thackeray
and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
My eyes flew open, and I pushed back against rock-hard shoulders. I let out a little squeak of horror. "It's me," said a familiar voice.… — Charlaine Harris
He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have my… — Ann Brashares
One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location… — Katrina Kenison
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his… — Theodore Roosevelt
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings… — Wendell Berry
Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life. Genet froze and… — Alexandra Bracken
Not that I knew who you were until last month. But now that I've got you, I'm not letting you go." "You're not?" Blake stared… — Julia Quinn
The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done? — Tosca Lee
The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me… — Lord Byron
Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice. — Stephenie Meyer
I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my… — Hugh Laurie
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you… — Jonathan Safran Foer
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to… — Beryl Markham

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