Quotes from Before Ever After

“We change at least one person's life just by being born”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“Life is a barter of choice and consequences.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“You can't return to a place that no longer exists, luv.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“My dear," Rose said, "you might be surprised at how much happiness you can find in the pages of the shortest love stories. Unlike penises, their length truly does not count.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“... I'll always have something that not even time can take away. Pain. ...because when I've forgotten everything else, I'll feel that ache... that tightness in my throat... that heaviness in my chest... and know that I loved a woman once and she loved me back. It's proof that I existed and so did she.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“Children know when they're loved. It's when you grow up that you're more easily fooled.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“It appears that you were meant to be mine only for a little while.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“Dying is not the real tragedy, Shelley."
"It's not?"
"Forgetting is.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“Why did I leave you? I loved you too much to stay.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“I'm sorry, but you just can't fit fabulous into a backpack.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“Things couldn't end if she didn't let them begin.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“I didn't want the 'ever' that came after happily. I didn't... don't want to be the one left behind.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“Dying is not the real tragedy. Forgetting is.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“There are other ways to live forever.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“A kiss can be dreadfully terrifying for the males of our species, I'm afraid." Rose said knowingly. "Sex is easy. All they really need is a few good thrusts. But when they kiss, they open themselves up and let you in. And that, my dear, makes some men's balls shrink to the size of raisins."

Shelley snorted with laughter.

Dex strode up to her. "Did someone say raisins? I'm starving."

"You might try asking Max for some," Shelley said. "I'm sure he has at least two.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“That is why I taught you how to trade, because that's what life is - a barter of choices and consequences.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“As the body rots, so does the cage that traps us in our wordly concerns. When my legs become too weak to carry my body, I stopped pacing with worry. When my fingers became twisted, I stopped pointing blame. When I lost my sight, I stopped seeing illusions. It may be dark in the pot that I am simmering in, but I can see more clearly than I have ever seen in my life.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“But I am half a man, wholly in love, and so I have chosen to let you leave me instead.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that we would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches. The gnomons's shadow falls where it falls - and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime's worth of steps have taken us.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“Growing old is to be set free, Brother. It is aslow and long-simmering process that extracts from you what you are really made of. But it requires acceptance. You cannot put a flailing chicken in a boiling pot. You must accept the heat and the pain with serenity so that the full flavors of your life may be released.
You may see this as decay, and it is. But it is also much more than that. As the body rots, so does the cage that traps us in our worldly concerns. When my legs became too weak to carry my body, I stopped pacing with worry. When my fingers became twisted, I stopped pointing blame. When I lost my sight, I stopped seeing illusions. It may be dark in the pot that I am simmering in, but I can see more clearly than I have ever seen in my life. I can see you, Brother, and I know who you are.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“I dream about home.. and it just makes it difficult to wake up.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“Antoine knew what it was like to flee, to shed a life as though it were a cloak. He had learned to pack light. The less he had, the less he had to leave behind.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“She just couldn't bear to listen to the echo inside her chest. Nothing was lonelier than the limping beat of half a heart.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“The gnomons's shadow falls where it falls - and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime's worth of steps have taken us.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

“We all need to take a proper break once in a while.”
― Samantha Sotto, quote from Before Ever After

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