History does not usually make real sense until long…

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

— Norman Mailer

“Many events plant seeds, imperceptible at the time, that bear fruit long afterward.”

— Rebecca Solnit

There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.

— Carl Sandburg

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

— Edward Steichen

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

— Henry David Thoreau

“A thorn is a pain, but the flower is a beauty if it vanishes it will leave hundreds of seeds afterward.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can…

— Bill McKibben

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell…

— Mary Schmich

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

— Susan Mallery

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...

— Harry S. Truman

Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.

— Paulo Coelho

Apologies don't mean anything if you're going to act the same way afterward.

— Anonymous

“And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one”

— John Green

“Stories are invented as you go along...”

— Orson Scott Card

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

— Michael Gruber