“I coded everything. And what came out of that was my first tutorial site where I was teaching people – other girls, mostly – to code. I had a 'staff member' when I was 14, also writing tutorials. That's what I was doing in my spare time.”— Madison Kanna, rollingstone.com
“We protected each other. I miss them at times. We had great love for each other.”— George Harrison, amazon.com
“My heart is a bar and someone else works there now. My heart is in a bar that feels like someone else’s home when I walk into it.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“…but that’s exactly what happens when someone leaves. They become like ghosts, because sometimes you can’t see them but you could still feel them once they are gone.”— R. M. Drake, diekleineelisabeth.tumblr.com
“There are songs that still feel like your teeth on my neck.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“Greg he writes letters and burns his CDs, they say you were something in those formative years.”— Tori Amos, open.spotify.com
“Deck the halls I'm young again, I'm you again. Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning. Seems I keep getting this story twisted so, where's Neil when you need him.”— Tori Amos, open.spotify.com
“When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“Some nights I wish I could go back in life Not to change shit, just to feel a couple things twice”— Drake, open.spotify.com
“One day, I lost sight of her. I happened to glance away for a moment, and when I turned back, she had disappeared.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Both a little drunk in the middle afternoon / with the forgotten smart of August on our skin / we hold hands as if we still were children…”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”— Vikram Seth, amazon.com
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”— Carson McCullers, amazon.com
“The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com