“These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.”
“Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.”
“But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.”
“We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!”
“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.”
“It's human nature to set a point in our minds when we feel triumphant and to measure everything that comes after it by how far we fall or rise from that point.”