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“But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.”
― Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

“Nostalgia is, by its very nature, bittersweet, the happiest memories laced with melancholy. It’s that combination, that opposition of forces, that makes it so compelling. People, places, events, times: we miss them, and there’s a pleasure in the missing and a sadness in the love.
The feeling is most acute, sometimes cripplingly so, when we find ourselves longing for the moment we’re in, the people we’re actually with.
That nameless feeling, that sense of excruciating beauty, of pained happiness, is at the core of “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).”
― Robert J. Wiersema, Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen

“He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

“Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins