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“I can't wait to get out of here. My parents... they act like everything since high school blows, like they'd get in a time machine if they could. IT's so sad. I mean life is all about what's next, you know?”

Book:You Love Me

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“i miss the days my friends knew every mundane detail about my life and i knew every ordinary detail about theirs adulthood has starved me of that consistency that us the walks around the block the long conversations when we were too lost in the moment to care what time it was when we won and celebrated when we failed and celebrated harder when we were just kids now we have our very important jobs that fill up our very busy schedules we compare calendars just to plan coffee dates that one of us eventually cancels cause adulthood is being too exhausted to leave our apartment most days i miss knowing i once belonged to a group of people bigger than myself that belonging made life easier to live - friendship nostalgia”

Poetry Friendship Nostalgia

Book:Home Body

Source: Home Body

“I find places like this so packed with memories. Visiting them can be like opening a memory jar. You take off the lid and the smells and sounds of a place hit you, unlocking things folded away deep in your brain.”

Memory Nostalgia Nostalgic Places Sensory Memory

Book:This Time Next Year

Source: This Time Next Year

“God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?”

Nostalgia Good Old Days

Book:Slow Horses

Source: Slow Horses

“The past isn’t quaint while you’re in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you can see it as décor, not as the shape your life’s been squeezed into.”

Age Nostalgia

Book:Cat’s Eye

Source: Cat’s Eye

“Nico found a sort of freedom in knowing that eventually, no matter what happened, he would end up at the foot of his father’s throne.”

Death

Book:The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“I shuffle over to the tree, sliding beneath it and lying on my back so I can look up through the gnarled branches. It's a kaleidoscope of color and texture: the smooth light bulbs, the prickly pine needles. Ornaments of glass, and silk, and spiky metallic stars. A little wooden drummer Theo gave Ricky nearly twenty years ago. Laminated paper ornaments of our handprints from preschool, handmade ceramic blobs that were supposed to be pigs, or cows, or dogs. Nothing matches; there's no theme. But there is so much love in this tree, so much history.”

Nostalgia Christmas Trees Christmas Ornament

Book:In a Holidaze

Source: In a Holidaze

“Memory is reminiscence of few last moments, It can make you nostalgic on things that never happened.”

Poetry Dark Illusion Nostalgia Moment Memory Quote

Book:Fragments of Nothingness

Source: Fragments of Nothingness

“...both of them found themselves off course in the tide of a world that had ended and of which only the nostalgia remained.”

Time Memory Nostalgia

Book:One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“All I wanted was for things to be like they used to be. Except for all the parts that couldn't be. Which I guess, was almost all of them.”

Nostalgia

Book:Phantom Limbs

Source: Phantom Limbs

“It's strange, really, how time passes. You don't even notice the world is changing until one day, you look around you and realize that everything around you is different.”

Life Age Regret Aging Nostalgia Growing Older

Book:Through a Glass, Darkly

Source: Through a Glass, Darkly

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