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“Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.”

Believe Children Bigs Able Faces Bits Sleep Childhood Dog Stones Wake Up Longing Glasses Nostalgia Treasure Sugar Dread Shells Going To Sleep Fear Not Morrow Fear Nothing Maple

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.”

Children Childhood Absolutes Catholic Nostalgia Pious

Author:Sonia Orwell

“I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.”

Way Childhood Grew Grew Up England Nostalgia Britain Multicultural

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.”

Years Has Beens Lost Childhood Sorrow Nostalgia Cherish

Book:Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.”

People Thinking Years Wells Children Bigs Lasts Three House Left Born My Own Four Childhood Quiet Died Our Children Nostalgia Echoes Happy Family

Author:Guy Maddin

“We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.”

Stories Action Girl Childhood Paper Nostalgia Sci Fi Bent Stand By Me

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.”

World Way Heart Feelings Past Faces Lost Childhood Nostalgia Touching Helplessness Constellations Overhead Piercings

Author:Denis Johnson

“But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn’t even true at the time—love of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions—and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives—then I plead guilty.”

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Author:Julian Barnes

“Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.”

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”

Ifs Wells Children Earth Childhood Nostalgia Nostalgic Childhood Memories

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss