After Life Quotes

There’s no advantage to being nice and thoughtful and caring and having integrity. It’s a disadvantage, if anything.

There is no bright future in journalism. By the time you’re a features writer, there won’t be newspapers as we know them because it’ll just be a s*** storm on the Internet. People posting nasty, f***ing hateful opinions that aren’t even theirs because their editor told them to, to get clickbait for f***ing advertisers because the world is full of f***ing morons. It’s awful. It’s an awful future.

It’s okay to have feelings, you know. Things that aren’t logical. Science makes us understand how to stay alive longer. Feelings give us the reason to want to.

It’s all about hope. You’re allowed to miss Lisa and grieve and feel angry. But I can’t bear the thought of you having no hope. That’s the saddest thing in the world to me. Giving in.[to Tony]

I’d rather be nowhere with her than somewhere without her.

There are no bad dogs, just bad owners. If you treat a dog bad and show them no love, that’s what they act like. If you show them kindness and hope, they’re fine. It’s the same with people.

That’s why funerals are usually a nightmare. Ten members of the family coming up with s*** ideas. “It’s what he would’ve wanted.”

My postman is proper depressed at the moment. He’s feeling very low about his life. And I thought if he spoke to someone with a genuinely awful existence, it might make him feel better about his own situation.[to Brian]

Just be yourself. Tell the truth. Always tell the truth.[to Kath]

It is everything. Being in love, I mean. You just don’t need anything else. You realize that even more when they’re not around.

If you’re a good person, doing things you want to do is the same as doing good.

I’m not angry anymore. I don’t want to punish the world. I’ve had my life, and now there’s nothing more to add. And it annoys me that people think I can have that again with someone else. Like I can replace Lisa. I can’t. And I’m cool with that because it makes my time with her even more beautiful, even more precious.