Afterwards Quotes

“I'm a sliver-thin light, diamond sharp, that can slip through gaps in the world we know. I will come into your dreams and speak soft words when you think of me. There is no happy ever after - but there is an afterwards.
This isn't our ending.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“You told me once that the last of the senses to go is hearing. But you're wrong. The last of the senses to go is love.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“Motherhood isn't soft and cozy and sweet; it's selfish ferocity, red in tooth and claw.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It's we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don't manage it.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“Can you get a summer snow-globe instead of a winter one with green grass and flowering azalea bushes and blue sky? Because I'm here, inside it. If you shake it, perhaps it fills with black smoke, not swirling snowflakes.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“I’m only just discovering that how someone behaves in everyday life gives no clue how they’ll be when it counts.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“Walking out of an A level paper isn't funny."
"It's not that I'm laughing at."
"So what is it?"
"No one ever tells you when you're doing all that course work and revision and timed essays and study skills that it's an option."
"But it isn't an option."
"It is, because I just took it.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“Six-year-olds’ on the bottom shelf of his bookcase. He’ll say he hasn’t read those stories for years, Dad, and in any case it’s too”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“How could I say that my husband had left me and that I’d been fired”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“trolley with Jenny’s body on it was wheeled past us, surrounded”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“Scrap the UN,” you’d said once. “Warring countries should just get a teenage daughter in the room.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards