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… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Feels 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… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Animal 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… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Capacity 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… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Be careful 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… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Change 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,… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Bad thing 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… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Animal Copy Share Image
