Angie Smibert > Quotes

“If you can't open it, you don't really own it.”
― Angie Smibert, Memento Nora

“I like things to be what they're going to be. Not what they were. Or could have been.”
― Angie Smibert, Memento Nora

“Yeah, I said the universe. Call it Fate or The Force or whatever you want. Everything is everything. It's all part of one big system. I like to think of it as the universe.”
― Angie Smibert, The Forgetting Curve

“Ten minutes later the kid came out trailing his mother. She hurried out the door. He stuck out his tongue at me. Loser, I thought, until I saw the white pill sitting on his pink tongue. He coughed into his hand, then mouthed the word remember, tapping his cast, and tossed the pill into the trash can.
I watched him leave.

He wasn’t glossy. He wasn’t dreary, either. He was something else.

He was all there.”
― Angie Smibert, Memento Nora

“The Coalition was like some supervillain syndicate or terrorist Legion of Doom, but no Justice League had arisen from the chaos to combat the baddies. No, it was like the superheroes had abandoned Gotham, and we citizens were supposed to just pop a pill and forget all about it, until the next time villains struck our fair land.”
― Angie Smibert, Memento Nora