Quotes About Nostalgia

If I forget the bad, I have to forget the good, too. The memories are all I have now of my family. And I don't want to lose them.

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home

Keeping track of Oren had once been the schoolgirl hobby of summer vacations.

I don't really think our greatest memories are always great while they're happening.

To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.

Carol Ryrie Brink

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

Coconut shies and

Manhattan, When I Was Young

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

In life, loss was the engine that set Wilder's fiction in motion. Exile propelled the powerful emotional current of the Little House books, an intensely felt nostalgia for people and places lost to her. That emotion was absent in "Free Land," relegating it to homesteading soap opera. Its loosely linked anecdotes were joined not by familial love but by Lane's, and the Post 's, ideology.

Such magic there is in Christmas to draw the absent ones home and if unable to go in the body the thoughts will hover there.

The whole fairground with all its memories would soon be smashed into the dust.

It seemed like five minutes later we were here, the Land That Time Forgot, watching the removal van disappear round the corner like a last hope.

I lay for hour thinking about London, my old bedroom and the Dad-shaped hole in my life.

I knew now that we were never going to be a proper family again.

Talking to you is like traveling through time.

I peeked in the bag. Do you know what was in there? I'll tell you what was in there: a collapsible tray table. Is there any sadder purchase in this fucking world? Maybe a CD of C+C Music Factory's Greatest Hits, but that's about it.

We're never too old to feel twenty-two, Rhode Island!). Well, fuck you, Taylor Swift, because I never felt further away from twenty-two in my entire adult life

Oh no, that's totally different. A nursing home list is a list of things you plan on reading and watching in a nursing home. A bucket list is more like . . . visit Nigeria, jump out of an airplane. A nursing home list is like, read The Western Coast and watch Pulp Fiction and listen to the latest Daft Punk album.

The most romantic time of my life was a hoax

I was only flipping through months gone by, inventing anniversaries for our life that's gone. You above all others know the importance of moving on; you like new things, you liked new things.

Sometimes I picture the crack in my heart. It flares up when something reminds me of Jon.

The internet has eliminated so much wonder and romance.