Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn't keep.

—Shannon L. Alder

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because their emotional thermostat is broken.

—Shannon L. Alder

If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left.

—Shannon L. Alder

In that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

—John Corey Whaley in Noggin

Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness.

—Isabel Allende in My Invented Country

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it.

—Linda Lael Miller in Creed's Honor

The history of art is the history of revivals.

—Samuel Butler

Believe me, I'd go back to the way things were in a minute if I could. But it's just not an option.

—Sarah Dessen in Lock & Key