Nostalgia Quote by Gunnhild Øyehaug

“Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have tried to…

— Gunnhild Øyehaug

“It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as I say,…

— Shirley Jackson

“Everything I want to say and everything I've wished to say begins to take shape, falling to the floor and scrambling upright. Paragraphs and…

— Tahereh Mafi

“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Oftentimes when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I don't want…

— Lisa Schroeder

“Many times when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I don’t…

— Lisa Schroeder

“I work it out. It is the act of reading itself I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the wold until…

— Nick Hornby

“I read all of those books I always wanted to read, or reread... And I feel full. Until I finish a book. Then I…

— Jill Davis

“You know what’s sad about reading books? It’s that you fall in love with the characters. They grow on you. And as you read,…

— Suzanne Collins

“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you've never met, but love. Even if you hate them,…

— Daniel Nayeri

“No one can see the point where the longing is the most concentrated.”

— Riitta Jalonen

“life is not an echo, endlessly returning the past to us so that we might read and reread in its fading variations the meanings…

— John Burnham Schwartz