After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different Quotes

“Humanity is a monster that will eat you alive. It is a pestilence sweeping across the landscape. But people? People can be alright. Loving even the smallest number of people is a reason to stick around, a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Trying to love people while holding onto hope is a daily war where the enemy is so much stronger than you. The enemy has tanks and bombs. They have napalm they’ll drop on you, and you’ve got Nerf guns and wooden swords.”
― Adam Gnade, After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different

“Some days a small wooden boat of local fishermen comes to shore, and they trade lobsters or crabs for shotgun shells and jugs of fresh water. The men look like explorers from another time. They are burned dark by the sun and they laugh easily and sometimes they try to talk to me, and my mother translates. I love them. They are heroic, alive, and something to aspire to.”
― Adam Gnade, After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different