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“Peter is suffering from an attack of nostalgia, she knows the symptoms. She mustn’t join in otherwise she’ll be swept away too, drowning in a quicksand of the past.”

Book:The Crossing Places

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“When Laura visited the hamlet just before the war, the roof had fallen in, the yew hedge had run wild and the flowers were gone, excepting one pink rose which was shedding its petals over the ruin. Today, all has gone, and only the limey whiteness of the soil in a corner of a ploughed field is left to show that a cottage once stood there.”

Time Loss Nostalgia Memoir

Book:Lark Rise

Source: Lark Rise

“Of course college felt extreme," Coop said. "You had infinite freedom and almost no responsibility. Nothing was fixed - you had your whole life ahead of you, and it could go anywhere. You had best friends you spent every minute with, so you were never alone. And you were in love. Real love.”

College University Nostalgia College Life Rose Colored Glasses

Book:In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

Source: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

“You could say I missed a place. You could say I missed a time, or a place and a time, or the person I was in that place and time--all of these things would be true. You could say I missed a particular season of a particular year when I lived in a city now thousands of miles away and many years ago. That distance widens by the hour, yet it amazes me that any time has passed at all.”

Youth Nostalgia

Book:The Traces: An Essay

Source: The Traces: An Essay

“We remember the old world as it had been for a thousand years, so beautiful and diverse, and which, in only thirty years, has crumbled away. When we were young every country still had its own architecture and customs and food. Can you ever forget the first sight of Italy? Those ochre houses, all different, each with such character, with their trompe l'oeil paintings on the stucco? Queer and fascinating and strange, even to a Provencal like me? Now the dreariness! The suburbs of every town uniform all over the world, while perhaps in the very centre a few old monuments sadly survive as though in a glass case.”

War Culture Europe Nostalgia World War Ii Generational Divide

Book:Don't Tell Alfred

Source: Don't Tell Alfred

“I wanted, more than anything, a chance to be simple, once again, as I was meant to be, and as I had been long ago, a long, long time ago.”

Love Nostalgia

Book:Look at Me

Source: Look at Me

“Nostalgia is where the past blurs into the present. That’s where all the best scents are to be found.”

Past Time Nostalgia Present Scent Perfume Fragrance Scents Cologne Olfactory

Book:There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“Yea, and thy deeds shall thou know, and great shall thy gladness be; As a picture all of gold thy life-days shalt thou see, And know that thou too wert a God to abide through the hurry and haste; A God in the golden hall, a God on the rain-swept waste, A God in the battle triumphant, a God on the heap of the slain: And thine hope shall arise and blossom, and thy love shall be quickened again: And then shalt thou see before thee the face of all earthly ill; Thou shalt drink of the cup of awakening that thine hand hath holpen to fill; By the side of the sons of Odin shalt thou fashion a tale to be told In the hall of the happy Baldur: nor there shall the tale grow old Of the days before the changing, e'en those that over us pass. So harden thine heart, O brother, and set thy brow as the brass!”

Nostalgia Heroism Norse Anaphora

Book:The Saga of the Volsungs

Source: The Saga of the Volsungs

“You never do get to go back to anything, but it really takes a long time to learn that….”

Regret Nostalgia Time Passing

Book:Memoirs of a Beatnik

Source: Memoirs of a Beatnik

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