“How can you separate those things though? The people are the place is the people.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the music, each hearing it in his own way, feeling relaxed and a part of the music, a part of each other,…”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com
“The best part about this city is that it is so big, you can break my heart in it and never have to worry about seeing me on your morning train.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“At this point it's not about finding someone to replace you. I have spread my love all over the place.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com
“i like to tell myself that i wasn’t really in love with you but even on the months i forget to pay my credit card bills, i still remember to check your horoscope.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“I read somewhere that it’s okay to miss people even if you don’t want them in your life anymore; and I hope that’s true. I hope everything I feel is okay.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com
“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“We are building this place with our own trembling hands and it is better than we ever thought.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“Do you ever look back at a really good point in your life and wish you'd cherished it more?”— Soft Grung, twitter.com
“You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.”— Jerry Seinfeld, rd.com
“The blog era, the real blog era, was so special man. People might never really know about it.”— Nah Right, twitter.com
“Our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.com
“We collected CDs assiduously, only to replace them ten or fifteen years later with limitless discographies we could toss in our pockets.”— Patrick Hipp, medium.com