“It made me think all the nowheres and even the nobodies of the world might stand a chance after all”
“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”
“I was still thinking he might come after me. Even after he left.”
“I think that after all it might be better to leave things as they are”
“and now I laugh at how the world changed me, and I think life chose me . . . after all.”
“I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.”