| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e0386c3 | Just a glance at the ragged mess around her fingernails communicated more than the lenghiest essays on the nature of distress. | danielewski distress the-familiar xanther nails bite | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| cea4c4d | There was an awful lot to be said for familiarity, if you thought about it. It was an extremely underrated virtue, ignorable until the very moment that you were in danger of losing whatever or whoever it was that was familiar--a house, a view, a partner. | the-familiar | Nick Hornby |