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“Puberty flicked a switch inside of them and dreams were replaced by hormones and college prep courses and varsity sports while I continued to look for faeries in the woods behind my house.”

Book:Life is But a Dream

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“I would even argue that, for many displaced people, nostalgia is also blended with fear - the fear of uncertainty and of facing the challenges posed by the larger world and the fear of the absence of the clarity and confidence provided by the past. In essence, nostalgia is associated mostly with the experience of a particular type of migrants, namely, exiles.”

Nostalgia Exile

Author:Ha Jin

“Nostalgia was diagnosed [as a medical illness] at a time when art and science had not yet entirely severed their umbilical ties and when the mind and body internal and external well-being were treated together...Our progeny well might poeticize depression and see it as a global atmospheric condition, immune to treatment with Prozac.”

Depression Nostalgia Psychiatry

Author:Svetlana Boym

“Su corazón de ceniza apelmazada, que había resistido sin quebrantos a los golpes más certeros de la realidad cotidiana, se desmoronó a los primeros embates de la nostalgia.”

Nostalgia

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.”

Culture History Nostalgia

Book:Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“I think that's what people do with the holidays. They wrap it up all neatly with a turkey and clever gifts and lots of eggnog and laugh and laugh, but at the end of the day there are always people missing from the table. And you have to either sit with those empty chairs and laugh, or you can choose not to come to the table at all. I would rather come to the table.”

Change Grief Nostalgia Holidays

Book:The Opposite of Love

Source: The Opposite of Love

“In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.”

Death

Book:Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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