"The Astonishing Color of After" Quotes
After her mother's suicide, a girl travels to Taiwan to unravel family secrets and discovers a world of magic and color.
young adult | 480 pages | Published in 2018
Quotes
I have always been too much for this world.
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
Grief is an ocean, and people are ships lost at sea.
The world is full of colors, and I see them all.
Laughter is a rare good medicine.
I wish I could tell her that everyone feels lost and broken, but it’s those who seek the light who find it.
Home isn’t always a place. It can be a person too.
Sometimes we need to let the old things die.
The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.
We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most.
