#familiarity

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #marriage #partner #years #love

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. ↗

— Ouida

#cruel #familiarity #kind #magician #ugliness

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good. ↗

— Susie Bright

#good #initially #lover #makes #really

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#celtic #celtic music #even #familiarity #heard

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#familiarity #flashy #great #great deal #how

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ↗

— Mark Twain

#children #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breed #contempt #edge #familiarity #may