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“Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.”

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“Anna drove with the window rolled down, breathing in the essence of autumn: an exhalation of a forest readying itself for sleep, a smell so redolent with nostalgia a pleasant ache warmed her bones and she was nagged with the sense of a loss she could not remember.”

Loss Nostalgia Autumn

Book:Hunting Season

Source: Hunting Season

“A list of things you might not hear: eylash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a tree, a hand in your hair, a lie being withheld, a tear's journey from eye to shoe, air becoming blue, longing.”

Hearing Nostalgia

Book:How to make a bird

Source: How to make a bird

“Therin lies the paradox of the profession,' Faraday said. 'Those who wish to have the job should not have it...and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.”

Death Contest Neal Shusterman Scythe

Book:Scythe

Source: Scythe

“Entre el deseo y la nostalgia, hay un punto que se llama el presente.”

Nostalgia Presente Deseo

Book:Dans les forêts de Sibérie

Source: Dans les forêts de Sibérie

“I would often sit in the corner of the room wearing Dad's massive headphones, carefully replaying the records time after time. It was something I did frequently throughout my childhood with music, comedy and film, inspiring my own creative imagination, the headphones rendering the experience intensely personal, as though it were all happening inside my own head.”

Music Childhood Nostalgia Experiences Headphones Nerd Do Well Simon Pegg

Book:Nerd Do Well

Source: Nerd Do Well

“Why could this darkness rip the gloominess around me Had an unknown reason of being fearful for so long Thinking, if its touched by these horrendous winds Will unleash my sorrowful side & my mood swings! Aesthetically pleasing it is now, Couldn't yearn for it to be any better This oasis of serenity though, I trust will cast away all my darkness & dust!”

Hope Memories Childhood Memory Nostalgia Nostalgic Memories Truth

Author:Shumila Shah

“The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.”

Loss Grief Beauty Family Sadness Sorrow Nostalgia Epiphany Family History Poignancy Personal Story Tragic Beauty

Book:Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Source: Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“Nostalgia for the 20th century brain helps nobody.”

Author:Douglas Coupland

“If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults, to the grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers of the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things our most violent form of nostalgia.”

Understanding Nostalgia Mothers

Book:Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Source: Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

“Am mai văzut fotografii de-ale ei de cînd era doar o adolescentă. Toate mi s-au părut cu neputinţă de suportat, ca şi cînd ai vrea să ţii mîna pe un fier înroşit. Nici nu ştia că exişti cînd şi le-a făcut, iar faptul că ai pierdut momente atît de preţioase din viaţa ei că a risipit atîta emoţie pentru altcineva decît pentru tine, chiar dacă pentru nimeni, este de neînţeles, de netrăit.”

Nostalgia Mircea Cartarescu

Book:Nostalgia

Source: Nostalgia