Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade… — Nella Larsen
This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister… — Anna Akhmatova
Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one… — Marilynne Robinson
My new 9mm didn’t fit my hand as well as my old one, but it was rapidly becoming a familiar weight. At first I’d decided… — Karen Chance
After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as… — Ysabeau S. Wilce
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the… — Charles Dickens
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by.… — Maeve Brennan
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!... — Charles Dickens
The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod… — Sarah Dessen
Simon shook his head."Look,do you know what you want to eat,or do you just want me to keep pushing this cart up and down aisles… — Cassandra Clare
We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his… — Veronica Roth
I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . . — Jennifer Haigh
Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in… — Robert Browning
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Did I hear it's going to be someone's birthday?" a familiar male's voice said from behind me. I didnt even bother turning around and continued… — Ellen Schreiber
In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
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… — Irvine Welsh
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no… — Beatrix Potter
The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a… — Gregory David Roberts
She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell… — Ann Brashares
It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. — Marisha Pessl
He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare… — Josh Lanyon
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed… — Naomi Wolf
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and… — William Faulkner

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