Quotes About Nostalgia

Following Alyssa, they all walked over to the green clearing in front of the mess hall. It was where they'd held most of the all-camp activities, like games. Jenna sighed, remembering all the good times she'd had there---the gossip, the giggles, the crazy conversations.

As more kids piled on and the bus started up, she stared out the window at the place where she'd done so much growing up. When she'd first come to camp, she couldn't believe she was setting foot on Camp Lakeview, or any camp grounds at all, for that matter. Now she couldn't believe she was leaving.

Do you remember those days? Back porch, sunshine, mason jars" - she paused at remembered sweetness - "we were so foolish then...thinking there was a big ol' world out there to conquer.

No one wants to see you leave. Their stomachs will miss you. I'll miss you.

Hi ha gent que amb un record, en té per tota una vida.

Mientras se recuerda, estamos dando vida al objeto del recuerdo. (P. 274)

I thought you had forgotten me." "I have spent my life remembering you.

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

A long, slow kiss. With mouths open. Teeth knocking. Tongues tangling. The kind my brother Marsh used to call a Saturday Night Special.

A saudade é a única dor que me faz esquecer as outras dores.

Em criança não nos despedimos dos lugares. Pensamos que voltamos sempre. Acreditamos que nunca é a última vez.

De quem fui onda, sou agora espuma, búzio sem eco, lembrança de viagem nenhuma.

Saudade é esperar que a farinha se refaça em grão.

E lhe veio uma saudade de Deus. Saudade de entrar num domingo e acreditar que ninguém morria porque era dia santo. Pudesse ela reentrar nesse encantamento que experimentara na inauguração da primeira capela." Mia Couto, 'O Outro Pé da Sereia

Aqui só há outroras, isto é água riscando fósforos.

A saudade é uma tatuagem na alma: só nos livramos dela perdendo um pedaço de nós.

Saudade de um tempo? Tenho saudade é de não haver tempo.

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing.

The first ear of corn, eaten like a typewriter, means summer to me—intense, but fleeting.

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.

The more the girls heard, the more it became clear that Uncle Jake and their straight-laced father had been first-class juvenile delinquents.