After She Left Quotes

“And then it occurs to me: maybe that’s exactly what life is. Life is exposure therapy. I laugh, thinking about that. Life is the problem. And life is the solution.”
― Claire Amarti, After She Left

“We all hear voices. Everybody on this planet. Okay? It’s just, the voice you’re hearing is louder and more unhelpful than most.”
― Claire Amarti, After She Left

“This is what I’m starting to know: that we can bury the truth as deep as we like, but that, like heat or rot, truth rises. It always rises.”
― Claire Amarti, After She Left

“And it’s darkness that gives depth to light.”
― Claire Amarti, After She Left

“Most of the time there’s no clear before and after when your world changes—only a slow landslide, quiet as a lullaby.”
― Claire Amarti, After She Left

“You know,” I say, “how babies freak out when someone leaves the room? How they think that, the second they can’t see you, you don’t exist any more?” Sam doesn’t respond. “Well,” I say, “that changes as we get older, right? And I think,” I swallow. “I think the older you get, the more strongly people exist even when they’re not there. By the time you get to Dad’s age, Sam, you carry everyone with you. You carry everyone all of the time. So you were with him, Sam. I really think you were”
― Claire Amarti, After She Left

“After all, the quiet is when we hear our own voices clearest.”
― Claire Amarti, After She Left

“the “increased rates” are minuscule; because the science methodology is questionable; and because people need to get on with their lives. Oliver”
― Claire Amarti, After She Left

“Life’s like that, isn’t it? You never see the beginning of things. Even looking back, sometimes it’s impossible to pinpoint. To say, there: that was the moment when everything changed.”
― Claire Amarti, After She Left