#sentimental

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season? ↗

#coming-of-age #cutting #cutting-class #first-love #geeks

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. ↗

#good #instead #journeys #make #sameness

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#happiness #hope #sentimentality #wishes #wishing

Only little boys and old men sneer at love. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#love #passion #sentimental #age

Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#home #love #sentiment #sentimental #home

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#i #i think #into #performances #possible

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#intellectuals #me #sentimental #too

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#against #hope #hopes #i #last

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality. ↗