“Admiration and familiarity are strangers.”
“Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.”
“In a sea of trees turned into a sea of total strangers, familiar means everything.”
“Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities generate strangers continuously ...”
“If I were an armadillo, and a stranger came up and said I looked familiar, and they wanted to know why I looked so familiar, I'd respond in a raspy voice, "Your brother ran over my brother.”
“Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.”