The After Party Quotes

“In the end, the details weren’t about beauty or status. They never had been, for me. They were about feeling at home in the world. And Joan hated these details. She thought my existence relentlessly tedious. What she couldn’t see was that the details were life. That was how you loved someone: every day, without fail, over and over.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The After Party

“I tried to keep myself busy, always. When I wasn’t busy I could feel myself getting dangerously close to a despair that always seemed to be there, just beneath the surface:”
― Anton DiSclafani, The After Party

“I began to forget. It is either the mind’s greatest mercy or its worst trick: that we forget those we love. If I”
― Anton DiSclafani, The After Party

“one woman always needs the other woman less”
― Anton DiSclafani, The After Party

“And,” she continued, “I have a little surprise. We’re expecting again! Hopefully a little JJ. The doctor just called yesterday, though I already knew, of course.” She took a sip of her daiquiri, smoothed her palm over her stomach. I’d”
― Anton DiSclafani, The After Party

“He seemed harmless enough. I don’t know why I thought that, exactly—just that I had somehow learned, like every other woman on earth, to separate the men who might do me harm from the men who seemed likely not to. “Joan,”
― Anton DiSclafani, The After Party

“She made people happy. She was beautiful, certainly, but she was more. She was lit from the inside.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The After Party

“Days are gods to years, my”
― Anton DiSclafani, The After Party

“He moved through the world like he owned a great big piece of it”
― Anton DiSclafani, The After Party

“She, like most unhappy people, wanted contradictory things. Illness”
― Anton DiSclafani, The After Party