#homesickness

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#travel

A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments.. ↗

— W.

#homesickness #love #memories #missing #missing-friends

Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you. ↗

— Ovid

#homesickness #longing #love #love

I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before. It was homesickness. Now, even more than I had earlier when I'd first glimpsed it, I longed to be transported into that quiet little landscape, to walk up the path, to take a key from my pocket and open the cottage door, to sit down by the fireplace, to wrap my arms around myself, and to stay there forever and ever. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#dreaming #homesickness #nostalgia #dreams

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#nostalgia #nostalgia

Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green Man. Sometimes sheep, seals, skylarks, the wind turbine. If Liam were home there would be some Liam. The summer fair. The Fastnet Race. I would unfold my map of Clear Island. Those tapes prised the lid off homesickness and rattled out the contents, but always at the bottom was solace. ↗

— David Mitchell

#homesickness #solace #business