Book of Quotes

After We Collieded

After: After We Collided by Anna Todd (also known on here as imaginator1D)

- "'He had nothing to lose, but I did. I let him take everything from me. My life before him was so simple and decided. Now . . . after him . . . it's just . . . after.'"

- "'Me either, I'm from Ohio, so I haven't seen much. Compared to Ohio, Seattle is like New York City.'" [I'm am sure this is true. Even though I've never been to Seattle or New York City, but I do live in Ohio and there is not much to see here.]

- "After eating, we head downstairs, and I'm thrown into a large conference room full of people who love books. It's heaven..."

- "'Oooh . . . someone is a grumpy gills.' I laugh."

- "The song of my phone alarm breaks into my sleep like a dancing penguin. Literally, my dream-mind incorporates it as a dancing penguin."

- "'The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives.'"

- "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"

- "'He stepped down, trying not to look at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.'"

- "I just can't believe you put up with my shit"

- "'Yes, supposed. I am very charming. No attitude at all.'"
- "My life would be easier if she was a hideous bitch, but of course she's one of the nicest people I have ever met."

- "'You were so annoying with your dreadful skirt and your loafer-wearing boyfriend.'"

- "This is World Religion; you may get bored a few times, and I can promise you that you'll learn a heap of facts that you'll never actually use in the real-world -- but hey, what is college for?"

- "Okay, I'm just teach him how to make a homemade bomb out of a soda bottle"

- "The music helps a lot. To hear about other people's pain reminds me that I'm not the only one to suffer in life. I'm not the only one who love someone who didn't love them enough to fight for them"

- "Why is he trying to have a fucking heart-to-heart with me a six in the fucking morning?"

- "What the fuck am I doing?" [I feel that way a lot of the time, too.]

- "There has to be some symbolism behind this, behind watching him help her pick up the pieces. Fucking metaphors."
- "Is everyone I know suddenly deciding to get married or is this some fucked-up cosmic joke on me?"
- "I'm just trying to figure out why there's an asshole screaming in my driveway"

- "'That smells so good,' I tell him while I sit across from him.

'What the flowers?'

'No, the pizza. Well, the flowers are okay, too.'"

- "'Would you go out with me!' he yells . . . practically screams, really."

- "Goddammit, Tessa, what part of "stay the fuck away from Zed" do you not understand?"

- "Happy fucking birthday to me"
- "This is why we have issues, because I daydream about force-feeding her."

- "What part of leave me the fuck alone do you not get, Tessa?"

- "This is the best gift anyone could have possibly given me. These are the simple things, the things that give me hope that somehow we can make this work, the fact that both of us were doing the same thing, reading Jane Austen, when neither of us was aware of the other"

- "That's the problem with Hardin: he hasn't quite realized that his action have consequences"
- "There are few people whom I really love, and still few of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."

- "An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."

- "Angry people are not always wise."

- "I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
- "I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."

- "I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."

- "To be fond of dancing was a certain step toward falling in love."

- "We all know him to be proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."

- "Till this moment I never knew myself."
- "There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."

- "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."

- "'And yours,' he replied with a smile, 'is willfully to misunderstand them.'"

- "She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequences to young ladies who are slighted by other men."

- "You have bewitched me, body and soul."
- "But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them forever."

- "How permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue."

- "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony is a moment."

- "Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony."- "I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."- "If you don't shut up, I'll have your name and Social Security number printed across my entire back."