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“That was the danger of nostalgia, Drizzt realized. One often remembered the good of the past while forgetting the troubles.”

Book:Passage to Dawn

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“However vivid they might be, past images and future delights did not protect Sylvia from the present, which "rules despotic over pale shadows of past and future". That was Sylvia's genius and her Panic Bird- her total lack of nostalgia. She had no armor. This left her especially vulnerable in New York, where she was removed from the context of her life, severed from that reassuring arc.”

Depression Anxiety Nostalgia Tunnel Vision

Book:Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

Source: Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

“And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been if he and I had been capable of trusting each other for a change. And so we hunted, and sang, and laughed, and told heavily edited stories of the good old days, while each of us watched the other and wondered when the knife would fall.”

Sadness Trust Nostalgia Suspicion Odin Loki Norse Mythology

Author:Joanne M. Harris

“I had this dream about you last night. We were still married. I was giving you a haircut, like I always did, being careful to trim around the scar on the back of your head. I’m sorry I sometimes forgot it and left you with a bald spot. And, I’m sorry we didn’t work out. But you look pretty happy on Instagram.”

Love Relationships Marriage Dreams Sorrow Careful Happy Nostalgia Dreaming Instagram Scars Haircut Bald

Book:Dreaming is for lovers

Source: Dreaming is for lovers

“Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.”

Nostalgia

Author:stephanie roberts

“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

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