Nostalgia Quote by Carrie Vaughn

“She felt like an amputee, reaching out reflexively with an arm she no longer had.”

— Frances Hardinge

“She had that aching feeling again, that feeling she knew was happiness. It seemed not only unfamiliar but terribly fragile—and frightening. She wondered how…

— J.T. Geissinger

“There were emotions she wanted to hold in the palm of her hand that were simply no longer there.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“A hand closed around her arm, warm and hard, and it could possibly have been comforting if she had possessed the faintest idea whose…

— Lilith Saintcrow

“I felt that I did not really remember her except through the pain, and I longed for the nails that riveted her to my…

— Marcel Proust

“She once told me how she could feel the missing part of her arm- how she sometimes experienced the sensation of a hand- that…

— Simon Van Booy

“The heart did ache, actually. She felt a dull grind of lack somewhere near her diaphragm, a pain that occupied the space of something…

— Sylvia Brownrigg

“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater.”

— Donna Tartt

“It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“...she had developed such a quiet comfort in his presence, like all the hurt of the world couldn't touch her. Yet, every once in…

— Sibylla Matilde

“A terrible feeling of loneliness besieged her, so strong it was almost like physical pain...”

— Jennifer Wilde

“It was there. That feeling, that oneness, that she'd always sought, that she'd always longed for, that had always eluded her. It was right…

— Pamela Morsi