Veronica Roth Quotes

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen again.

When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life.

My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.