Veronica Roth Quotes

People recognize me, but I get a lot of, 'Didn't I go to camp with you?'

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.

Everything about me remembers everything about you

Certain scents can evoke so much feeling, nostalgia, and trigger beautiful memories.

I'll note you in my book of memory.

Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses

I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

What you remember saves you.

I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones - a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

I open journal, I look at the picture and I remember where I was. And I remember the time of day, the temperature of the air, what music was playing, or who was talking to me, or who was looking over my shoulder and what conversations we had and the smells of the earth and the time of year it was. It's all there for me in a way that we don't get looking at a snapshot. Most of us look back at a snapshot from ten years ago and say, where was that? We don't even remember where we were.

Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

I'm surprised by how much I remember.

There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.

I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It had been about twenty years. I wanted to write it out before I watched it again. And I felt if those things stayed with me long enough, those are the things that I wanted to highlight.