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“Evangelicals have squandered their cultural capital because they have tried to reclaim a standing in American culture that they never had. The American Founding was a mix of fragmented religious (and not-so-religious) voices.”

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“Stoner and Masters smiled at each other, and they spoke no more of the question that evening. But for years afterward, at odd moments, Stoner remembered what Masters had said; and though it brought him no vision of the University to which he had committed himself, it did reveal to him something about his relationship to the two men, and it gave him a glimpse of the corrosive and unspoiled bitterness of youth.”

Youth Nostalgia Bitterness

Book:Stoner

Source: Stoner

“Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?”

Anger Nostalgia Resentment

Book:Looking for JJ

Source: Looking for JJ

“The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that I felt the ghost of my vanished house rise around me, a cold mountain wind thrumming past its walls, and thought that, if I reached down, I could feel Adso's soft gray fur under my fingers. I swallowed, hard.”

Loss Memory Nostalgia Claire Fraser Adso

Book:Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“La lógica se negaba a estar con él para explicarle que no la estaba perdiendo para siempre, que las separaciones fortalecen, que antes había podido vivir solo, que no se moriría por más que se sintiera agonizando.”

Amor Nostalgia Tristeza Fuerte Lejanía

Book:Mal de amores

Source: Mal de amores

“Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside.”

History Nostalgia Imaginings Rose Tinted Glasses

Book:The Dark Beneath

Source: The Dark Beneath

“Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.”

Nostalgia Living In The Past Love Of The Past

Author:Raheel Farooq

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