Quotes About Nostalgia

You've always been my summer.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Nat was my first real boyfriend. My first kiss. I can remember when he used to defend me from the bullies back in kindergarten. He shouldn't be allowed to go around looking like some kind of rock star.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs.

Who among us has never been moved to tears, or to tears' invisible counterparts, by mention of the word 'home'? Is there any other word that can feel so heavy as you hold it in your mouth?

My history is your picnic ground,

In that part of my mind that only remembers life before fourteen, Raheen, I'll love you forever.

Traveling around the country where you grew up , lost some of your virginity and a few of your illusions, acquired some lasting neuroses, and then left in a hateful mood, is a slightly schizoid experience. You are at once an outsider to the present and an insider of the past. Or perhaps the other way round.

Were they happy years, do you think?' I ask Grégoire. 'Well, if I'm not happy now, I must have been happy then. When I was at the Lycée, I wanted to be in France, to be free, to be myself. Now that I'm in France, I wish I could come back here, to be at home again. I feel more connected with the past than with the present. Is that normal?' 'I don't know,' I say. 'Probably not. But at least you feel connected with something.

Later, the sisters would remember things differently, as sisters do, old grudges and misunderstandings refracting each memory, bending them in opposite directions.

These interviews, sometimes they jog your memories, like what you were doing when you were 10 years old. They're always searching for your past; they can keep you living there. I want to go on to the future.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

I always think it would be great to play clubs again, and then when I do I don't like it because I just feel sometimes it's a bit too intimate.

Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.

It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion.

I am a Tintin girl and grew up on Archie comics. Then I was introduced to Mr. Bean.

I grew up in rural Alabama, and some of my older family members used to eat red clay dirt. As a kid, I was introduced to it.

I had a very late introduction to films. We didn't watch a lot of films while growing up in Kolkata.

Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

I've never been to a school reunion. Mainly because I'm still in touch with my two friends and after them, I only really liked the teachers. I'm pretty sure no one invites teachers to school reunions.

Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with.