Afterlife Quote by H. L. Balcomb

“she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her.”

— Virginia Woolf

“She was not meant to live simply to endure, but to thrive, to create, and in doing so reflect the glory of creation itself,…

— Marie Bostwick

“And as for herself, if she could manage to welcome sorrow as readily as joy, it would shape her as deftly as joy could…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“And she sang. Perhaps she'd never stop, for it was rather freeing, this blissful, empowered place where she was nothing but rhythm and resonance.”

— Dianna Hardy

“....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.”

— Holly Lynn Payne

“She rose with the grace that was inherent to her every move ... Perhaps she did everything to a rhythm only she could hear.”

— Eloisa James

“She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right…

— Han Kang

“She was left to beg for mercy only to burn in torment again the next day. She was a weed struggling through cracks of…

— Airicka Phoenix

“She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with…

— Honoré de Balzac

“She’d poured so much of herself into keeping it buried, sometimes it felt like any energy she might have had for joy or love…

— Laini Taylor

“Suddenly a feeling swam over her with a mighty strength. The feeling was both overwhelming and peaceful, linking her to some cosmic and eternal…

— Mike Ericksen