Quotes About Nostalgia

Den har tilhørt bestefar, sa hun, og glattet på seddelen med de slanke fingrene sine. Han likte papirpenger - hadde for vane å bruke dem som bokmerker. Det er over tredve år siden han døde, men fremdeles finner jeg alle slags sedler stukket inn mellom bladene i bøkene hans.

I'm fascinated with antiques," Miz Goodpepper said, bathing in a pool of soft light from the window. "I find there's a sweet sorrow in object that have slipped away from their original owners.

A collection tells the story of the collector. A collection is a shoring up against the things that have gone missing. So much goes missing.

Use your imagination as an arrow hurtling back toward what might have been or will never be.

I remember watching my mother emerge from her bedroom on a night when she and my father were going out, all dressed up in heels and hose, a skirt or dress that cinched her waist, her pearl choker like a ring around the moon. I'd watch her from my perch in the kitchen, walking trancelike as she fastened the back of an earring. I'd like to be small again, just for a little while, and feel close to her. I never really appreciated my mother. I never appreciated myself.

You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.

All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough again so it would be perfectly natural to be protected from the wind and the rain—and the world.

But however fast the world was spinning, time was standing still for Celine and Oliver, held in a magic moment they would never forget.

Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.

The diner's candy-apple-red jukebox, recently named Gina after songstress Regina Belle,

Living in memories is an empty gesture.

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

I looked back all the time, too much, too often. Like Rose, I would be circling my mother the rest of my life.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

It is, I concluded, a side effect of this kind of food, one that's handed down from one generation to another, often in conditions of adversity, that you end up thinking of the dead, that the very stuff that sustains you tastes somehow of mortality. (198)

Expats of any country are quick to lose their sense of humour, beaten down by a lifetime of defending the land they no longer live in.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bull stares into the hazy distance as though the right words are out there somewhere and all he has to do is claim them as his own. Sometimes it gets so quiet in Gungee you can hear conversations from a hundred years ago breathing on a gust of wind.

My childhood love affair didn't die, it just vanished. Women had stopped wearing hats.

It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever.

Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?

Maybe it was because of the speed and danger. Or the psychedelic disco ball and the Beatles. Or the 'Suicide' fountain drinks and the crowded boys bathroom. But Skateland on Lindsey Street was absolutely the place to be in the Sixties.