After Life Quotes

“You announced it to the whole church. It’s the best way to spread gossip in this town. Tell the faithful.”
― Gayle Forman, After Life

“He had paused for love. And love had paused back. What a wonderous place this world could be”
― Gayle Forman, After Life

“And so, to all the mothers, fathers, siblings, relatives, and friends who have lost someone out of order, too soon, I send you all the love in my heart and I dedicate this book to you.”
― Gayle Forman, After Life

“Her mom starts to sob but it's a different tenor than it has been all these years, not choked in grief but laced in joy, because love and loss are the flip sides of the same coin. She's grieving Amber because she lost her, but she's not entirely losing her because she loves her.”
― Gayle Forman, After Life

“I want you to love that daughter of yours with all your heart. I want you to be there for her and for your wife even when things get so hard you don't think you can walk another step.”
― Gayle Forman, After Life

“He had paused for love. And love had paused back. What a wondrous place this world could be.”
― Gayle Forman, After Life

“because love and loss are the flip sides of the same coin. She's grieving Amber because she lost her, but she's not entirely losing her because she loves her.”
― Gayle Forman, After Life

“But maybe what’s clutter when you’re alive becomes treasure when you’re not.”
― Gayle Forman, After Life

“In Judaism, when a person dies, it's customary to say to the bereaved "May their memory be a blessing." Recollection is not just a blessing. It is a lifeline to immortality. It is how we hold close the people we love but who are no longer with us. It is how, in my experience, we survive loss.”
― Gayle Forman, After Life

“I paused at the crest, in that perfect moment, the feather suspended in the air. It's downhill from here ... I feel light as air. The wind whips under my arms, so strong like it might lift me off this bike, like it might carry me home”
― Gayle Forman, After Life