Aftermath Quotes

“We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?"
A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“I sent a quick text to Adrian: I have a hickey! You can’t ever kiss me again. I honestly hadn’t expected him to be awake this early, so I was surprised to get a response: Okay. I won’t kiss you on your neck again.

So typical of him. No! You can’t ever kiss me ANYWHERE. You said you were going to keep your distance.

I’m trying, he wrote back. But you won’t keep your distance from me.

I didn’t dignify that with a response.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

“Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.”
― Arthur Phillips, The Song Is You

“There are two missions we are obligated to carry out during our life journey. The first, is to seek Truth throughout our lifetime. The second, is simply to be good. Engrave it in your mind that life is just one big board game where you have to make it from start to finish by being good. That is all you have to do. The hardest part, is dealing with all the obstacles that prevent smooth sailing. The trick is, to always strive to be the right person in all situations – regardless of personal cost to you. Your aim is to make sure the right book on your shoulder weighs more that the bad book on the left. The scales are real. Regardless of your chosen faith, there is a measurement system to be found in all of the world's religions. After all, does it make sense for all souls, good or bad, to end up in the same place? Of course not. To really secure the very best setting in the afterlife, the vibrations of your good deeds must surpass your death.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“In truth, Serenus, I have for a long time been silently asking myself to what I should liken such a condition of mind, and I can find nothing that so closely approaches it as the state of those who, after being released from a long and serious illness, are sometimes touched with fits of fever and slight disorders, and, freed from the last traces of them, are nevertheless disquieted with mistrust, and, though now quite well, stretch out their wrist to a physician and complain unjustly of any trace of heat in their body. It is not, Serenus, that these are not quite well in body, but that they are not quite used to being well; just as even a tranquil sea will show some ripple, particularly when it has just subsided after a storm. What you need, therefore, is not any of those harsher measures which we have already left behind, the necessity of opposing yourself at this point, of being angry with yourself at that, of sternly urging yourself on at another, but that which comes last -confidence in yourself and the belief that you are on the right path, and have not been led astray by the many cross- tracks of those who are roaming in every direction, some of whom are wandering very near the path itself. But what you desire is something great and supreme and very near to being a god - to be unshaken. ”
― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

“Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept his will. It is their agency. He cannot force his will upon them. If he did, he would cease to be God. They . . . we must choose for ourselves to accept his will with unbreakable faith in our Father. That is when the Father moves us to do his will.” (The Spirit. From Book 2, "Worlds Without End: Aftermath," coming September 1, 2012)”
― Shaun F. Messick

“Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether the killer gets caught or the investigation is brought to a successful conclusion doesn't make any difference; it's almost impossible to stop the advance of the disease.”
― Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo

“I am so distracted,
stuck somewhere between
the earth and sky,
unsure where to set my eyes.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Fleur of Yesterday

“The gullible taste of an aftermath echo.”
― Florin-Marian Hera, Ten Loud Rocks

“I’m sitting in the aftermath, Fleur,
still absorbing what happened.
I don’t know every detail, just some.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Fleur of Yesterday

“Suicide is not a way of ending pain, it's just a way to redistributing it.”
― Mishell Baker

“After seeing the hurricane Ian aftermath, I would avoid living anywhere with a past history of hurricane damage.”
― Steven Magee

“How many bodies have been found?”
― Steven Magee

“Too many bodies?”
― Steven Magee

“I was seeing a lot of articles on how good the Florida Babcock Ranch Solar Power Farm was in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, but none on the DeSoto Solar Farm which was the biggest solar farm in the USA in 2009, opened by President Obama.”
― Steven Magee

“Is everyone that lied to world about the number of dead bodies found in the Florida hurricane Ian aftermath going to jail for fraud?”
― Steven Magee

“Florida altered the historical record for the Hurricane Ian aftermath.”
― Steven Magee

“The ocean was extensively polluted during the Florida hurricane Ian aftermath.”
― Steven Magee

“Do you believe the Florida government?”
― Steven Magee

“Is the Florida government telling the truth or is it propaganda?”
― Steven Magee

“Lots of Florida bodies or just a few?”
― Steven Magee

“Florida residents were boiling their water during the hurricane Ian aftermath.”
― Steven Magee

“The hurricane Ian aftermath left many people unemployed.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 increased during the Hurricane Ian aftermath in Florida.”
― Steven Magee

“Many items with batteries were going on fire in the hurricane Ian aftermath: Electric cars, golf carts, electronic products and so on.”
― Steven Magee

“Dangerous mold and bacteria invaded Florida in the hurricane Ian aftermath!”
― Steven Magee

“We've grown closer in the aftermath of our blood-stained memory.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“So much of the rest is aftermath.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“I didn’t ask for the sword. But I’ve carried it this far.”
― Rita Kay, Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing