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“You still crave lemonade, but the taste doesn’t satisfy you as much as it used to. You still crave summer, but sometimes you mean summer, five years ago.”

Book:You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism

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“The world of Mark Twain seems so very far away from us. Today that half-wild innocent America of his childhood memories is a lost continent, sunk forever under those arid deserts of asphalt, those oceans of poison sludge, those mountains of technological garbage which are the monuments of the human dilemma we like to call progress. It’s nice though to catch a glimpse of things as they used to be... a landscape painted in words to bring us back for a moment, to that early morning of the American day so blithe and free when we were still on speaking terms with Mother Earth.”

Nostalgia American History Mother Earth Childhood Memories Mark Twain

Author:Orson Welles

“Jay could hear the roar of the ocean in the distance and it reminded her of her youth with the stinging salience of salt in a wound. No matter how hard she railed against sit, this place belonged to her as much as her own weary bones did, and she could not unknow the taste of those dark waters any more than she could the bitterness of citrus on a man’s clean skin.”

Love Romance Nostalgia Dark Romance Angst Angsty Love

Book:Sine Qua Non

Source: Sine Qua Non

“Sometimes I touch my skin and wonder if the past is all there ever was.”

Past History Regret Memory Nostalgia Touch The Past Remembering Skin Regret Quotes

Book:A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

Source: A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“We used to be so close, she would say, periodically, apropos of nothing. There was a tinge of wistfulness, but that was all.”

Nostalgia

Book:Severance

Source: Severance

“Idea: A Napster for borrowed nostalgia. It's a place you go to where you can download others' memories.”

Memories Memory Nostalgia Nostalgic Collective Memory Napster

Book:A Memoir of Memories and Memes

Source: A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“How strange it is to be a continent away from ¨home¨ and you don't know where ¨home¨ is anyhow and all the ¨home¨ you've got is in your head. [letter to Neal Cassady, Jan. 8, 1951]”

Nostalgia Homesick Immigrant Experience Expat

Book:Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1940-1956

Source: Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1940-1956

“It would be an account of love and duty, not just anger and hatred, and it would be filled with dreams, and the memory of having once looked to the future, and an eagerness to dream again. It would be boring, because you simply had to be there. It would be poetry and not history. ...the deep ambivalence you once felt toward a song that now devastated you...the look when someone recognizes you. I'm going to write about all this one day, I told her, and she smiled at me.”

Nostalgia Memoir Adulthood

Book:Stay True

Source: Stay True

“Having Nostalgia is romantic. It's the ability to Never forget something you love”

Love Nostalgia Millennials 2000s

Book:The Backtrack

Source: The Backtrack

“He said, “When I was a kid, I used to shut my eyes in the car when we were ten minutes from home. And then I tried to feel it, feel that last corner that was the driveway. I tried not to count the turns, just sense when we were home. And I usually could.”

Childhood Nostalgia

Book:The Great Believers

Source: The Great Believers

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