It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and eac...
You. You are the last page of hundred pages I have written in my journal. Filling its pages with special kind of spoken words without a sound, and the I Love You that's been written and rewritten coun...
(n.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.
I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned, the '90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even...
I never even heard her voice."And after a while:"It is a strange grief."Softly:"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
Nostalgia is a longing for your home.
Din splendorile cafelei de odineoară, neschimbat rămăsese doar mangalul.
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazz...
And what if the other kids laugh at me? Kerry complained to her parents as she nibbled on a piece of toast that morning. I have a Cape Breton accent! They’ll know I’m from Canada and they’ll start ask...
Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.
Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and...
A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that is childhood becomes smaller and smaller, more and more distant, more and more faded, though they...
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.
NW" is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia -- for old movies, old songs, buses they don't ride anymore -- is less a salve than a form...
I'm nostalgic for a better tomorrow.
Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.
Nostalgia is missing what might come back.
It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything tha...
Super 8 film is the language of silence.
I nodded, trying to imagine the very particular sadness of a vanished childhood yogurt now found only in France. It was a very special sort of sadness, individual, and in its inability to induce sympa...
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