In the After Quotes

“This is how I think of time: the past is Before, and the present is the After. Before was reality; the After, a nightmare.”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“All of Them are monsters, but not all monsters are Them.”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“I’d always escaped into books, but now reading had become something more. It allowed me to be somewhere else, to feel something else, not just the numbness that overtook my body and made me wonder if I was still alive.”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“Doesn’t he know there will always be someone out there who wants to destroy good?”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“You don't mind giving up your freedom?"
Vivian tilted her head. "You always have to give up some freedom to live in any society.”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“Gareth once told me that ignorance was bliss and I’d responded that ignorance was dangerous. We were both right. But which is better?”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“Everyone works because everyone is important.” To me this sounded like a great way to spin forced labor.”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“People don’t expect a small Japanese girl to be able to break a man’s arm.
“They didn’t assume you were a ninja?”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“People don’t expect a small Japanese girl to be able to break a man’s arm. “They didn’t assume you were a ninja?”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“Vivian’s necklace.”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“You were in the city," Rice explained, "High concentraition of Floraes, hardly any post-aps. In other areas, where there was less population density, children were the ones more likely to survive. Adults probably kept them concealed, took extra measures to protect them. And of course children are good at hiding. Once their instinctual survival skills kick in, they know how to be quiet."
"They believed in monsters before the monsters showed up," I wispered.”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“FOR IN THAT SLEEP OF DEATH, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, WHEN WE HAVE SHUFFLED OFF THIS MORTAL COIL. SWEET DREAMS, VIVIAN. LOVE, AMY.”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“Don't you ever feel guilty that you're alive?”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“I wasn't able to take away her horrible memories, but I could share her pain.”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After

“You can tell a lot about people by the kinds of books they owned.”
― Demitria Lunetta, In the After