# Before Ever After  Author:: Samantha Sotto ## Highlights > But Max was gone, and now Sundays coated her mouth with ash and gritty bits of grief. ([Location 140](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004KPM1SK&location=140)) > After Simon was killed, Brad had wedged his camera between himself and a world that did not have his fiancé in it. ([Location 147](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004KPM1SK&location=147)) > If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that we would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches. The gnomon’s shadow falls where it falls—and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime’s worth of steps have taken us. Are we early for this moment? Are we late? Should we hurry back to the town house because your watch says so or should we linger as long as we can in the second where we stand?” ([Location 1620](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004KPM1SK&location=1620)) > You can make a child believe a lot of things. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny … just about anything really, except love. You cannot make a child believe you love him if you don’t. My grandfather loved me, Shelley. I know that. ([Location 1667](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004KPM1SK&location=1667)) --- Title: Before Ever After Author: Samantha Sotto Tags: readwise, books date: 2024-01-30 --- # Before Ever After  Author:: Samantha Sotto ## AI-Generated Summary None ## Highlights > But Max was gone, and now Sundays coated her mouth with ash and gritty bits of grief. ([Location 140](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004KPM1SK&location=140)) > After Simon was killed, Brad had wedged his camera between himself and a world that did not have his fiancé in it. ([Location 147](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004KPM1SK&location=147)) > If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that we would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches. The gnomon’s shadow falls where it falls—and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime’s worth of steps have taken us. Are we early for this moment? Are we late? Should we hurry back to the town house because your watch says so or should we linger as long as we can in the second where we stand?” ([Location 1620](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004KPM1SK&location=1620)) > You can make a child believe a lot of things. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny … just about anything really, except love. You cannot make a child believe you love him if you don’t. My grandfather loved me, Shelley. I know that. ([Location 1667](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004KPM1SK&location=1667))