#after

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#after #easy #finding #hard #hard work

After the smoke clears, I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here. I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#alexander #clears #did #here #i

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year. ↗

— Fred Allen

#creation #go #hat #her #just

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album. ↗

— Anita Baker

#age #album #first #i #making

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage? ↗

— Ashleigh Banfield

#completely #coverage #happened #horrors #journalism

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them. ↗

— Edward Dyer

#come #finish #finish last #great #guys

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#death #exhausted #fighting #five #i

We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still go that other moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered, whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the building block of something new. A planet or a star or a sunflower, a baby. Maybe even a cockroach. Who knows? Whatever it is, it'll be a part of us, this thing right here and now, and we'll be a part of it. And if it's a cockroach? Well, that will be the happiest ****ing cockroach on the planet. I can tell you that. ↗

— Libba Bray

#happiness #memories #puzzles #afterlife

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to. ↗

— John Green

#death #loved-ones #death

And if you don’t think I can hold my own against all those eighteenth-century mortals you were out tagging, then you’re a fool, Casanova.” ... “Oh, yes, I know all about you.” He went still. “What are you talking about?” “I was alive back then. And all the Lore heard about the ruthless warlord brothers from Estonia. The general, the scholar, the enigma, and . . . the manwhore. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#fey #humor #immortals-after-dark #kresley-cole #paranormal-romance