“You could say I missed a place. You could say I missed a time, or a place and a time, or the person I was in that place and time--all of these things would be true. You could say I missed a particular season of a particular year when I lived in a city now thousands of miles away and many years ago. That distance widens by the hour, yet it amazes me that any time has passed at all.” YouthNostalgia Book:The Traces: An Essay Source: The Traces: An Essay
“An awareness of history—not merely the facts of it, but a sense of its continuity” Paris Review Author:Mairead Small Staid