Here After Quotes

“I cannot believe how much pain we are asked to bear when we are alive. How, even if there is a way, no one can show us how to live with it.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“I have never known how to love something in moderation.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“Love is longer than time.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“I ask him, when we are engaged, how someone so indecisive can be so sure I am the one for him. You weren’t a choice, he says. It was always you.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“Whenever I receive something I truly want, I am instantly terrified of losing it.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“When I am in it, love can make me believe anything.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“I shrug. I do not want to live, but for the sake of my family and my friends, I am trying to want to.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“He reaches out to touch me. I recoil, not from him, but from what he is offering. This tenderness I want but do not know how to receive.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“All the things people give us that we do not know we need until we have them.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“You don’t know the names of my pains, I say. I’ll learn, he says.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“when he loved me, everything in my life got better.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“I tell my mother he’s not boring. You like him, she says. She is surprised because I never like anyone. I do, I say.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“Death has warped my ability to be in the world.... I have become someone I do not understand, that others do not understand. I do not know the right way to be anymore.”
― Amy Lin, Here After

“Let time be tender toward us, I say to him.
Let the dishes sit in the sink.
Let the radio play your favorite song.
Let the moon pull the tides at will. And oh...
Let love be at the end, wherever that may be.”
― Amy Lin, Here After