After the End Quotes

“...When you stand at the crossroad you cannot see each destination, only the beginnings of the paths that will lead you there. All you can do is hope that someone will walk with you.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“Everyone has an opinion, yet the truth is that no one can really know what is right. No one can predict the future, and so all we can do is make a decision based on the facts we have, and—sometimes on what our heart tells us.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“In a few moments, the doors will open, and the next act of Dylan’s story will begin. No matter what the judge’s ruling, Max’s and Pip’s lives will be irreversibly changed today, and Leila knows they will forever question the choices they made in the weeks leading up to the hearing. But when you stand at a crossroad you cannot see each destination, only the beginnings of the paths that will lead you there. All you can do is choose one, and walk, and hope that someone will walk with you.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“None of us knows what’s going to happen in the future, love. The only thing we can do is make our choices on the way we feel right here, right now.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“It's like when two people have the flu," Blair says. "They know how the other feels, but they're too sick to nurse each other. They both need to get better first.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“Empty arms feel empty forever, even when they’re full again.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“I hold it to my face and breathe in the scent of my boy—a physical assault on my senses that makes me lean against the wall to keep myself from falling.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“I guess when you become a parent yourself you have to work harder at being a child to your own parents.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“But when you stand at a crossroad you cannot see each destination, only the beginnings of the paths that will lead you there. All you can do is choose one, and walk, and hope that someone will walk with you.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“When Alexis was born, I thought I'd never have a second child. How could I, when I'd already poured my love into my first? But then I had Brianna, and then Logan, and I realized something they don't teach you in biology.... The heart stretches.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“It’s possible to look without seeing. To act without feeling. You just have to close your heart for a while.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“Sometimes you only know for certain if you’ve made the right decision once you’ve made it. Either it slides smoothly into place as though it were always meant to be there, or it sits, spiky and misshapen, in the corners of your mind. This isn’t right – you’ve made the wrong choice.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“Stovėdamas kryžkelėje negali matyti galutinio kiekvieno kelio tikslo - tik jo pradžią, nuvesiančią ten. Gali tik pasirinkti vieną jų ir eiti, tikėdamasis, kad kas nors eis su tavimi.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“looked at my wife and my son, and thought how it was down to me to look after them, and I felt a mix of macho pride and blind terror.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“I mean that it isn't fair to ask us - ordinary people with no medical knowledge - to decide whether someone lives or dies, but as I say it I realize that I mean it isn't fair this happened at all, that Dylan was healthy, and we were happy, and then someone threw a grenade into our life.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End

“I envy Pip the time she spends with Dylan, but at the same time, I don't know if I could do it. Time away from the hospital gives me strength for when I come back. Eating proper food fuels me for when I don't eat at all. Seeing healthy, happy people around me reminds me that's the life we once had. The life we'll have again.”
― Clare Mackintosh, After the End