Quotes About Nostalgia

There were a few 6th form girls that I got with when I was I the 6th form, they were really nice, so that was cool.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

Had I ever been in love. When B and I were together, I thought from then on I would never be out of love. The magic was it would never, ever end, and even though it has ended, it never really has. Even now, yes, after all this time, and after everything that has happened, sometimes I feel a sudden tug on my heart, and my breath catches in my throat, just when I think of him, just when I remember, when I remember how it all was.

We wove a web in childhood,A web of sunny air.

Our only means of true intimacy with a child is the power of recovering our own childhood.

You were moon's eye to me pull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

School-stories might as well be called friend-stories, really, that just happened to be set in boarding schools.

What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.

Homesickness starts with food

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

If I could reach the stars I'd give 'em all to you Then you'd love me, love me Like you used to do

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again.

It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.

She loved horses and Hank Williams and had a best friend named Babs.

He seemed like someone I'd always known even if I never saw him again.

My daughter is wearing a dress that her grandmother bought for her at a yard sale. It's so simple it breaks my heart. How unspecial that fact is to so many, how ordinary for a child to wear a dress her grandmother bought her, but how very extraordinary it was to me.

There was no mother at our college graduations. There was no mother at our weddings. There was no mother when we sold our first books. There was no mother when our children were born. There was no mother, ever, at any turn for either one of us in our entire adult lives and there never will be. The same is true for

Each of Dermoût's sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.

There are times in life you wish dinosaurs weren't extinct and could be whistled to come and gulp you down.

When you break up, it becomes a habit to remember everything about the man

Why did we grow up? Things were so much simpler earlier. -Aarti

Optimists are nostalgic about the future.

E qualquer coisa que eu recorde agora, vai doer. A memória é uma vasta ferida.