“I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.”
“Some stories are so familiar its like going home.”
“The ideal three stories a day are one favorite, one familiar, and one new, but the same book three times is also fine.”
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.”
“Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.”
“Ico took the girls hand in his own, the gesture feeling intensely familiar, as the sun shone brightly over the end of their long story.”