“After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.”

“Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.”

Terry Pratchett book Men at Arms

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

“If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

“Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.”

Julian Barnes book Talking It Over

“After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.”

Terry Pratchett book Jingo

“Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives. Why do you think Christ was killed? They killed him to prove that he wasn’t a god. But in killing him, they immortalized the perishable and transformed man into a god.”

Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer

“You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.”

Robin Wasserman (1978) American writer of speculative fiction for young people

“Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you’re not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you’re who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you’re you.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author