Ark Quotes

“Well, you can’t love everything equally,” she said. “You just can’t—and if you did, then it’s the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear, because that’s what love is. Particular. Specific.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“She wished she could have told him that life was already full of dread, no matter who you were. That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose. That autumn always gave way to winter, but it was her favorite time of year—those fleeting bursts of beauty before the branches went bare.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“Well, you can’t love everything equally,” she said. “You just can’t—and if you did, then it’s the same as loving nothing at all.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“it was simply that her entire life had been lived in anticipation of loss, such that neither her mother’s death nor her father’s had surprised her in the least, but had rather seemed like the fulfillment of a promise.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“You have to hold just a few things dear, because that’s what love is. Particular. Specific.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“She thought of what she had told Hagen earlier, that he had been dying since his wife passed away, and his body hadn’t caught on yet. When she was younger, she had been angry at her dad, thinking she wasn’t enough to keep him around. But now she felt like he had known too well that he was in a piece of weaving that was unraveling, that the world was unmaking itself, and he just didn’t want to witness it.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“was simply that her entire life had been lived in anticipation of loss, such that neither her mother’s death nor her father’s had surprised her in the least, but had rather seemed like the fulfillment of a promise.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“Well, you can't love everything equally," she said. "You just can't - and if you did, then it's the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear because that's what love is. Particular. Specific.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“You feel like you’ve been dying all this time, too, then,” Samantha said. “It’s just that your body hasn’t caught on yet.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“Why take a shower when you’re just going to get dirty? Why eat when you’re just going to get hungry? Every flower dies eventually, Sam. But not yet.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“So maybe he had been apologizing for giving her life in the first place, when he knew it would be full of dread. She wished she could have told him that life was already full of dread, no matter who you were. That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose. That autumn always gave way to winter, but it was her favorite time of year—those fleeting bursts of beauty before the branches went bare.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose. That autumn always gave way to winter, but it was her favorite time of year— those fleeting bursts of beauty before the branches went bare.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“But now she felt like he had known too well that he was in a piece of weaving that was unraveling, that the world was unmaking itself, and he just didn’t want to witness it.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“Why take a shower when you’re just going to get dirty? Why eat when you’re just going to get hungry? Every flower dies eventually”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“The dread of Finis was the only thing she knew. It was the first segment on the nightly news, the top category of every news website, and the easiest reach for every comedian.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“It’s the story of this planet in reverse,” she said. “We were born out of—coalescing matter, chaos, here, all lava and earthquakes and thunder.” She smiled a little. “It will be like . . . seeing the birth of the world. Can you imagine anything more beautiful, more worth witnessing, than that?”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“You just can’t—and if you did, then it’s the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear, because that’s what love is. Particular. Specific.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“She wished she could have told him that life was already full of dread, no matter who you were. That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“autumn always gave way to winter,”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“There is so much left for you to see.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“Borders had stopped mattering after the asteroid Finis was discovered twenty years ago. Everyone was just an Earthling now.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“Well, you can’t love everything equally,” she said. “You just can’t—
and if you did, then it’s the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to
hold just a few things dear, because that’s what love is. Particular. Specific.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“Brendan”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“Why, she had once asked her mother, do you bother to keep anything alive when it’ll all be wiped out by Finis?

Her mother had shrugged. Why take a shower when you’re just going to get dirty? Why eat when you’re just going to get hungry? Every flower dies eventually, Sam. But not yet.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark