--- title: "1 Arcadia Quotes By Lauren Groff" description: "1 Arcadia quotes by Lauren Groff. Plus more from Lauren Groff and more Arcadia sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/lauren-groff-2802_arcadia_it-was-the-people-the-interconnection-ev_2157139.png" --- > [“It was the people, the interconnection, everyone relying on everyone else, the closeness. The villages are all dying now, small-town America is dying, and the only place where the same feeling exists now is here, in the city, millions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/it-was-the-people-the-interconnection-everyone-relying-on-everyone/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/lauren-groff-2802_arcadia_it-was-the-people-the-interconnection-ev_2157139.png) ## Other authors on Arcadia - [Steven Magee 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/steven-magee/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tom-stoppard-91582.jpg) Tom Stoppard 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/tom-stoppard/) - [Jenn Bennett 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/jenn-bennett/) ## More by Lauren Groff > [“But my best friend from college was silent for a long time. She, of all of my friends, had seen the parade of sad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/but-my-best-friend-from-college-was-silent-for-a-long-time-she-of-all/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/you-had-to-pick-up-a-landline-to-make-sure-your-best-friend-wore-a/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [“Then, when we had done so, we put our hands upon the freezing cold monster, our monster. And this is what we felt: vertigo,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/then-when-we-had-done-so-we-put-our-hands-upon-the-freezing-cold/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/i-see-history-as-really-cyclical-in-terms-of-the-intense-idealism-and/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [“He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/he-thinks-of-the-rotten-parachute-they-played-with-as-kids-in-arcadia/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/i-love-writing-from-enclosed-spaces-you-really-learn-about-your/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [ “\[Still apparent in him, the tiny boy, mewling in cold and hunger. It’s less delicious, this badness bred from survival.\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/still-apparent-in-him-the-tiny-boy-mewling-in-cold-and-hunger-it-s/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/even-still-we-run-we-have-not-reached-our-average-of-57-92-years/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time I wrote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/i-had-a-series-of-terrible-jobs-whatever-would-allow-me-to-write-for/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [“The stories themselves aren't what moves him now...What moves him are the shadowy people behind the stories, the workers weary from their days, gathering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/the-stories-themselves-aren-t-what-moves-him-now-what-moves-him-are/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [“Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts worse,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/even-still-we-run-we-have-not-reached-our-average-of-57-92-years-2/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [“Lugubrious and pretentious at the same time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/lugubrious-and-pretentious-at-the-same-time/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/but-i-ve-married-a-deeply-sensible-person-who-is-extremely-good-at/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/writing-is-the-lonely-sport-of-sad-sacks/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) > [“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/they-sit-here-in-the-darkness-trusting-that-the-coffee-will-be-hot/) [Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/lauren-groff/#itemlist", "name": "1 Arcadia Quotes By Lauren Groff", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It was the people, the interconnection, everyone relying on everyone else, the closeness. The villages are all dying now, small-town America is dying, and the only place where the same feeling exists now is here, in the city, millions of people all breathing the same air. 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