“…the nostalgia for things that weren’t yet lost.”— Juan Gabriel Vásquez Related Quotes “Perhaps it is worse when love has flowed freely to find it one day dammed.”— Jeanette Winterson “For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word ‘never’. And it’s really awful. You say the word a hundred times a day but you don’t really know what you’re saying until you’re faced with a real ‘never again’.”— Muriel Barbery “I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.”— Christina Baker Kline