The United States of Nostalgia Quotes

“That might be the American Dream in its most durable form: not the promise that nothing will hurt, but the promise that some future reward will eventually justify whatever hurt was required to reach it.”
― Vincent Licastro, The United States of Nostalgia

“Nostalgia isn’t always wanting in the past back. Sometimes it’s wanting back the future the past still thought was possible.”
― Vincent Licastro, The United States of Nostalgia

“A scar is not a promise to keep the wound open.”
― Vincent Licastro, The United States of Nostalgia

“Childhood doesn’t end when a child reaches a certain age. It ends when somebody else becomes desperate enough to need the child for something.”
― Vincent Licastro, The United States of Nostalgia

“A country advanced enough to count every crack a child falls through can track the descent in real time and still called the landing a mystery.”
― Vincent Licastro, The United States of Nostalgia

“Naming a wound doesn’t heal it, but it can stop the wound from naming you.”
― Vincent Licastro, The United States of Nostalgia

“Childhood might just be that brief kingdom where need has not yet become a flaw.”
― Vincent Licastro, The United States of Nostalgia

“Resilience is the word they use when they plan to leave the weight exactly where it is.”
― Vincent Licastro, The United States of Nostalgia

“Nostalgia can be a type of grief for the future that was still alive inside the past.”
― Vincent Licastro, The United States of Nostalgia

“Childhood is when you get to be useless. Guess that means I never got one. My family always needed from me what I needed from them, but they needed it more.”
― Vincent Licastro, The United States of Nostalgia