After Her Quotes

“I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“They seemed to arrive at some form of friendship. Maybe they were like a couple of weary soldiers who went through a war together, side by side in the trenches, and having no inclination to relive the old battles found a certain comfort in the simple knowledge that they'd been young together and present at the same terrible moments of bloodshed. Even though, in their case the injury sustained there was my mother's t the hands of my father.”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“She never gave up adoring our father, but he ceased to be, for her, the larger-than-life hero I continued to make him into. For Patty, he was more like a deeply lovable spaniel who keeps peeing on the rug and chewing on the upholstery, no matter how many times you tell him not to.”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“I love him,” Patty said. “But our dad is a loser.”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“weary soldiers who went through a war together, side by”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“She was also coolly resistant to the seduction of flattery. Honesty she liked. Sweet talk got you no place once you’d committed the offense of betrayal. Lie once and you lost her.”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“She had allowed us to make our own lives, free of the burden of pleasing her. Patty and I belonged to nobody but our own selves.”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“She had yet to experience the effects of anybody’s sex appeal, though she greatly admired Larry Bird—a fact that could not possibly have had anything to do with his looks.”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“a person would need more than one good kick to stop a murderer.”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“mother when she told him one too”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“way his choice of me as his girlfriend—as the”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“killed before her, had been covered in tape, in the”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“the most recent murder. Now she came up to me in first period to say I should sit with her at lunch. This was a definite step up from my old spot in the cafeteria. She wanted to know if my father had any new leads. “Even if it’s top secret, none of us would breathe a word,”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“THE NEXT DAY THEY FOUND the body of Charlene Gray lying in a thicket of young madrone just below the Steep Ravine Trail, near where it intersected with Little Salmon Creek.”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her

“whole”
― Joyce Maynard, After Her