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… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
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
