Sigrid Nunez Quotes

It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

Me and my dad, we're both quite nostalgic people.

When I look back to my childhood, many concrete scenes come to my mind, good ones and bad ones.

He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.

I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.

This is going to make me sound really weird and stalkery, but I've bought the aftershaves of all my ex-boyfriends. Sometimes I like to smell them and be like 'aah, that's Charlie... aah that's Dan'.

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

Some of the best dishes I can remember are from my childhood. Sometimes, whenever I want to feel like a kid again, I just whip them up for the family.

I look back on my schooldays with a warm glow of nostalgia.

Yes, I used to miss my childhood, but I did get a chance to relive it through Esha and Ahaana.