Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
We're physical objects, we think of ourselves as these kind of free-floating brains, but the brain is such a little part. It's way smaller… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when our numbers are this huge and out of control. I wonder, what's the carrying capacity for human beings? When do we get to the point when we can't take it anymore, when it becomes too unpleasant… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share
I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
I'm not necessarily a happy person. I don't think that happiness is always the right response to a situation. I think we've come to… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence,… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
