Nostalgia Quote by Junot Díaz Download Open image ““...a particularly Jersey malaise--the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.”” — Junot Díaz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nostalgia
“Oh, and I need to known where Jersey is and if I have enough money to buy it.” — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“You count the years until you get a varsity jersey, then you're a hero, an idol, a cocky bastard because in this town you… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
For me, Jersey represents going through what you can go through and still surviving. That's the cool thing about people from the Tri-State area.… — AJ Lee Copy Share Image
“Coldest the remembrance of the wider ocean--wealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I notice that he keeps his head down, his chin tucked—trying to conceal his face. I lift his chin. “This hiding-in-plain-sight thing only works… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren’t supposed to go.… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Ramfis fled the country after Trujillo's death, lived dissolutely off his father's swag, and ended up dying in a car crash of his own… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Can you miss someone you haven’t seen for longer than you knew them? Maybe we rue the time not the person.” — Hannah Rothschild Copy Share Image
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
