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.
Adam PhillipsTags: nostalgia understanding mothers
And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia.
Galt NiederhofferTags: love nostalgia possibility rule feat
it's good to have things done with
when they don't work
it's also good not to hate
or even forget
the person you've failed with.
Tags: learning nostalgia mistakes life-lessons
I slept that night in the room I used to have when I was a little boy, with the summer wind blowing in at the windows, bringing the smell of the ripe fields. I lay awake and watched the moonlight shining over the barn and the stacks and the pond, and the windmill making its old dark shadow against the blue sky.
Willa CatherTags: nostalgia strong-women prairies
how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast.
Herman MelvilleTags: nostalgia
I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
Lois McMaster BujoldThe staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and religious fervour. We were all in a state of shock. We engaged in a long Dostojevskyan conversations and drank one black coffee after another. It was sort of night typical of youth, the sort you only can look back on with shame and embarassment once you've grown up. But God knows, I must have grown up already by then, because I don't feel the slightest embarassment when I think back to it, just a terrible nostalgia.
Antal SzerbTags: nostalgia melancholy coffee young conversations nights dostoievsky
Não ter nascido bicho parece ser uma de minhas secretas nostalgias.
Clarice LispectorTags: nostalgia
She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts?
Sage SteadmanWe should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
Lois McMaster BujoldTags: love nostalgia self-reflection aging regret wistfulness might-have-been
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