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“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.”

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Gabriel García Márquez

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“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

“There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.”

Perspective Nostalgia Bias

Book:The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric

Source: The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric

“Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.”

Suffering Envy Nostalgia Chronological Snobbery

Book:If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C.S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life

Source: If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C.S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life

“He's rigged a tiny cassette player with a small set of foam earphones to listen to demo tapes and rough mixes. Occasionally he'll hand the device to Mindy, wanting her opinion, and each time, the experience of music pouring directly against her eardrums - hers alone - is a shock that makes her eyes well up; the privacy of it, the way it transforms her surroundings into a golden montage, as if she were looking back on this lark in Africa with Lou from some distant future.”

Music Nostalgia

Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“You. You are the last page of hundred pages I have written in my journal. Filling its pages with special kind of spoken words without a sound, and the I Love You that's been written and rewritten countless times. After all this time that I spent writing about you in my journals, can you still not understand? Only you can fill this quietness and emptiness, only you can take this grief away, isn't it obvious? Who else will save your soul and mine? God knows, it is you that will heal the holes and cracks of times.”

Love Passion Missing Nostalgia

Author:Mookhatchka Khalid

“,,Ir nenoriu sau geresnio nieko, tik prie žemės prisiglaust brangios, būti tėviškės arimų slieku, mėlyna rugiagėle rugiuos.”

Nostalgia

Book:Prie didelio kelio

Source: Prie didelio kelio

“I had intended to visit the haunting ground of my school days. Subconsciously I wanted to be in a place where anxiety, responsibility and financial burden had yet to surface.”

Nostalgia Maturation

Author:Joe Cawley

“The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.”

Technology Perspective Nostalgia Discernment

Book:Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

Source: Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

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