Quotes About Nostalgia

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

I can still see those penetrating landscapes of my youth. I well know that I belong to them, that what little of love and truth is in me comes to me from their tranquil delights.

What about The Simpsons, you ask? I knew more about Springfield than I knew about my own city.

When my father saw the jacket, he grinned wide and spent a minute looking over each and every patch.

Ismeritek azt a mondást, hogy ha egyszer elhagytátok az otthonotokat, soha nem térhettek vissza oda igazán?

I had a weakness for vintage kaiju and tokusatsu, shows like Spectreman, The Space Giants, and Supaidaman.

Halliday's favorites, like WarGames, Ghostbusters, Real Genius, Better Off Dead, or Revenge of the Nerds

Imagine that Dungeons and Dragons and an '80s video arcade made hot, sweet love, and their child was raised in Azeroth. If you're not already experiencing a nerdgasm at the thought, I don't want to know you." —John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of Old Man's War

Land of the Lost, Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock!, G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.

Ernest Cline

The sorts of movies my late father had been nuts about.

Playing old videogames never failed to clear my mind and set me at ease. If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away

I watched every episode of The Greatest American Hero, Airwolf, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Misfits of Science, and The Muppet Show.

When the IOI corporate police came to arrest me, I was right in the middle of the movie Explorers (1985, directed by Joe Dante). It's about three kids who build a spaceship in their backyard and then fly off to meet aliens. Easily one of the greatest kid flicks ever made. I'd gotten into the habit of watching it at least once a month. It kept me centered.

Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Pink Floyd.

Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.

When I played the classics, I did so with a determined sort of reverence.

could still visit them anytime I pleased, because there was a highly accurate OASIS re-creation of the Portland Avenue Stacks just as I remembered them, constructed from photos and video of the real location taken before the bombing. It was now a popular OASIS tourist attraction and school field-trip destination.

Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames.

Og gave the Sega Ninja cabinet an awkward pat, as if it were an unfamiliar Labrador. Then he shoved both his hands into his pockets and grinned at me like a lovestruck idiot. He looked as if his pupils might change into cartoon hearts at any second.

I should be thanking you. I haven't had this much fun in decades!

Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames. It was hard not to love the guy. Back