The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Carson McCullers, from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1940)
The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that badly the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
— Carson McCullers, from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1940)
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that badly the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
— Carson McCullers, from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1940)