Quotes About Nostalgia

He always smelled like warm wood and brandy, even when he hadn't had a drop of drink. Funny how he managed that. Funny how his smell was in her bed. Henry's eyelids fluttered open. Funny how he was in her bed.

Do you really think anyone saves our programs from one year to the next?" Sarah asked. "My mother does," Daisy said. "So does mine," Sarah answered, "but it's not as if she pulls them out and compares them side by side." "My mother does," Daisy said again. "Dear God," Iris moaned.

He was very tall," Francesca began. "Not so tall," Eloise said. "Benedict is taller." Francesca ignored her. "He was tall. And he smiled a great deal." "He held us on his shoulders," Daphne said, her voice starting to wobble, "until we grew too large." "And he laughed," Eloise said. "He loved to laugh. He had the very best laugh, our papa...

And then, very sweetly, he kissed her. It tasted like the past. It tasted like her very heart.

There is nothing like one's family to make one feel like one has never grown up.

And it had been a long, long while since her life had felt nice.

She enjoyed writing notes, especially to people she hadn't seen in years (she'd always liked to imagine their surprise when they opened her envelope) (...)

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.

There was a time when I just loved 'Indiana Jones' so much. I was in fourth or fifth grade, and I wore a fedora like that one to school every day. It was so dumb.

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be cowboys and Indians.

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

For me, I always loved summer movies. I love indie movies, foreign films, but there's definitely a part of me that loves summer movies, ever since I was a kid.

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Whenever I discuss my family, I inevitably think of my brother Owen.

When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

I must say, I was a very filmy kid. I used to watch a lot of TV and get very influenced by Bollywood.

I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.

I'm always pretty influenced by stuff from when we were younger.

I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything, you know.