After I'm Gone Quotes

“All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“Sandy tried to never lose sight of the fact that we tend to order things according to the reality we know, as we discover it. All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“You can rewrite life all you want, Sandy thought. It’s still a play where everyone dies in the end.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“Ten years. Ten years. Rachel missed her father every day. Not consciously, but his absence was a part of her, like a vine that wraps around a structure, sustains it even as it weakens it.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“Everyone thinks everything’s a waste of time when it’s not the thing that leads to an answer.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“Almost every writer I know dreads the moment when someone tries to give you an idea. It’s not that the ideas are bad, just that the relationship between writer and novel is so personal that it’s a little like someone trying to play matchmaker for a happily married person.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“When it came down to it, Sandy didn’t have much use for words because so many of the ones he had heard over his life had been lies.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“When destiny wants to fuck with you, it can afford to be patient. Destiny has all the time in the world.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“There it was again, another strange usage. 'We had words.' Everyone has words...What a useless euphemism. The phrases that people used to make things prettier never worked.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“She had thought: No, I was dead. Now I’m”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“When destiny wants to fuck with you, it can afford to be patient. Destiny has all the time in the world. Anyway,”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“People make fun of love at first sight, but it’s just good instincts.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“Everyone cared what others thought, even those who were defiantly different. They cared more than anyone.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn't show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think it was similar for carpenters and writers, and he knew it was the same for chefs.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“The first kiss was at once passionate and chaste, a kiss that contained everything that was to mark their future together—his aching need for her, the slightest sense of reserve on her part, as if she would always hold back a piece of herself. Their last kiss contained their entire history.”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“He was gone. Kiss”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone

“been her”
― Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone