Until we have some convincing, detailed, agreed-upon explanation for the broad pattern of history, most people will continue to suspect that the racist biological explanation is correct after all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But since the Resthaven people did and, after all, knew nothing of his background, he forgave them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede was always polite; she was the daughter of the King’s Chancellor, after all. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You might turn out to be a beauty after all,” she said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Choked themselves2— thrashed and turned sick, after all the trouble I had plucking their grass and cleaning their muck and not one egg. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Some dishes, after all, call for something special. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you’ve got you a wee babe to tend, after all these years without,” he teased her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the distinction between original and copy is not so critical in printmaking after all. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t given much thought to getting my period, although I knew it would come one day: I had older sisters, after all. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Yet as the two lawmen stared at the man in the car, they realized that the killing hadn’t stopped after all. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It’s the first sign that maybe he’s not an impostor after all. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

This was, after all, a deeply red state, one that by numerous measures was among the top five most conservative states in the country. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I guess your father gave you a trip after all. Except on that trip, it turned out that you were the father and you were with your own son.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was, after all, guilty of the sin of “pride, ” wasn’t he? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Now he’s just staring at me, and it’s obvious he thinks I’m weird, like he’s not so sure he wants me feeding his dog after all. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“That God has a sense of humor after all.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And after all we did for them,” Miss Ohio said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then once again, after all the white people were served and we’d finally gotten to our turn, suddenly the butcher called for a woman named Mrs. Wishart to step in front of us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That night, after all the clocks had been inspected and cleaned, Hugo opened the magic book. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe I didn’t get my temper from Scrappy, after all. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe they don’t want Earth saved after all. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe the universe has my back after all. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I talked to social services today and told them I didn’t think your situation at home has improved, after all. I told them I thought maybe they’d made a mistake.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

That was, after all, the reason behind the fight. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was still on the island, after all these years, old as dirt but sustained by a few of her wards, children who’d grown up but never left. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The Valyrians had raised it, after all, and all their works stank of sorcery. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Leo wasn’t sure why all that fancy stuff had been on the beach, but at least it meant that this place was inhabited, after all. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I would see my home again, after all, and my parents. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

On the third Sunday after Snowball’s expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Some things, after all, would always be more important than others. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of Trout’s novels, after all, dealt with time warps and extrasensory perception and other unexpected things. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flashlight had been the best thing to bring after all. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cagey and strange, as if he didn’t want to be seen with her after all. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But then again she was, after all, a Butler. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t know him, obviously, and he might turn out to be insanely destructive—he is outside in the middle of the night on a day he’s slated for death, after all. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The gulf between us had been bridged after all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But it turned out that the camps, which had seemed to go on forever, were, after all, temporary. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Melba will be hard to get along with after all this spoiled treatment,” Mama said as we ate, laughed, and talked. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I walked twelve miles instead of, say, five, what would it gain me after all? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The nine freshman boys who had beaten California would go to Poughkeepsie to race for the national championship after all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Looks like your pa can fix more than busted pumpjacks and jammed rigs after all.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s absurd, Frank, it’s ridiculous. They should not listen to Tabb. How can he tell, after all these months, how holes came to be in a boat? What are they trying to prove?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She told herself that they would make good companions after all. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But he had not left the Wall for that; he had left be-cause he was after all his father's son, and Robb's brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At these times, Riddick wondered to himself if it had been a good idea to throw the two together after all. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I decided it was a storm after all. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I can remember a song that my mother used to sing. But she still sings it, so perhaps it isn’t a memory after all,” said a girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Thinking that after all this, I’d had to shoot him the same as I’d done the roan bull and the Spot heifer. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if this homeschool thing was going to work out after all. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

White people felt equal, after all, so why should black people feel any different? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He still, after all these years, had dreams of being back in the Tower. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But now...if they could discuss such a huge problem so calmly—the ultimate source of Greek/Roman hatred—maybe there was hope for the two camps, after all. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And the bubbles held—they were strongly magic, after all—until they didn’t. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were orphans, after all—or in Sticky’s case, believed to be. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder what it would be like to meet him in person, after all this time. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

This hadn’t been such a horrible day after all. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

And light was not that important, after all. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Going home will seem bland after all this.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“And anyway," Riccio declared as he came to the end, “the fat liar does dye his beard after all. So I get three brand-new comics from you, Hornet—you haven't forgotten our bet, have you?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I began to think I had been wrong to do as I had and that perhaps after all this was not the best way to overthrow Marxism. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow the war never ended after all, it just broke up into pieces and got scattered, it gets in everywhere, you can’t shut it out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Betsy. I have to admit I’m hurt. That after all these years of friendship, you don’t trust me.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then, after all the world had taught them, not to recognize chains when they were snapped to their wrists and ankles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She began to think that there might be a way out, after all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had turned out to be an all-right Wednesday afternoon after all. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She had slammed it shut on leaving, but had not locked the dead bolt; after all, not even a burglar could get into a snowbound building. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after all they'd done, their focus was always on what they still planned to do for civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Still like this, after all the appointments and scans and medicines. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And he always ignored them, because if he’d ever opened his mouth, they would have realized that was all he had, just good teeth; he was, after all, exceptionally stupid. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But now that the big day was here, I realized it wasn’t the end after all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is just a tower, after all, like so many other towers in the Ticino, this southern part of Switzerland. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The name sounded strange to me after all these years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He even insured the girl’s life, since children after all were such fragile things and could be taken from the world in a heartbeat. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Wood, after all, in a wooden cigar box. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it possible I am to have them, after all,” she writes—“Youth, and Love, and Life?” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

So...it wasn’t such a bad day after all. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griffiths’s frown grows bigger, and I decide to plead my case after all. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want him to see me like this after all these years. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But this seems unreasonable: modern libraries, after all, keep records of duplicate volumes, and their ancient counterpart was no less carefully cataloged. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps I'll take up my da's trade after all. As I said, it's best to be what people expect of you." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She starts telling him about the baby goshawk and how I won’t keep her after all the trouble she has gone to. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t, after all, always keep his voice under control. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Made me feel just good to see one again after all those years and I said, “It’s a loom for weaving cloth.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew he was right about Dusty after all. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She’s the manager of the Catastrophic Concerns Department in our family, after all, so it’s pretty much her resting face. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It’s like two people still standing at a bus terminal after all the passengers have been met, the instant shared feeling almost enough to make them intimates. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth finally agreed that perhaps the Cape wasn’t so bad, after all. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if I’ll do this well every night. This was only my first time, after all.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She is, after all, out in the sun, with the tunnel behind her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But given the scene around me and my own tender wrist, I wondered whether his study wasn’t valid after all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mullahs decided that Ayub’s son would go to hell after all for wearing his pants the way he did. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks, after all, that he is an American. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what I kept telling myself, and the next day at the gym, the extra bounciness of the new bars didn’t seem like such a huge deal after all. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Had it not been the boat after all? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And there’s Jamie and me in June, the sun on our faces and the sand at our feet, finding each other again after all those years. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“There is no carriage here. The Herr is not expected after all. He will now come on to Bukovina, and return to-morrow or the next day; better the next day.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She was only a typist, after all, albeit a very fast typist. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first clear evidence that Chicago might have created something extraordinary after all, and it renewed Burnham’s hopes that the fair at last would achieve the level of attendance he had hoped for. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Papa was not going to get the son he wanted, after all! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For her part, Lyra was a little surprised to find that the Scholar she sought was female, but the alethiometer hadn’t said a man, and this was a strange world, after all. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl could have been blind and his sweetheart; after all, she was pretty. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the bees would be calm after all, the snakes silent, and the chickens full of eggs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And Dr. Maria said, “Yeah, I don’t see why not. They’ve got oxygen on the planes, after all.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there were not very many of them after all? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though she knew it was meant to be a cautionary tale, now that she had seen that fairy, she thought that Kathleen’s fate was not so cruel after all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king's own fool, the pie-faced simpleton called Moon Boy, danced about on stilts, all in motley, making mock of everyone with such deft cruelty that Sansa wondered if he was simple after all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was taught to read the Bible, play tennis, and use a typewriter, which was the only useful thing she was left with after all those years in a foreign language. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spoke to him with the authority of people who had done this before, and also with a slight condescension; his fate was, after all, in their hands. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and thought to myself, Maybe this grade isn’t so bad after all. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, we stood there, all five of us, shocked at the sight of him after all this time. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’m happy and have a little hope that Brandy does seem to care and maybe we’ll be friends again, after all. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’ve decided to go to college in the fall after all.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The doors did not open, but the windows were big enough for a nimble mouse to climb through, and, after all, racing-car drivers did not open their doors. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the final suggestion makes me feel his invitation isn't one after all. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a lot to be said about the boys, or maybe not so much after all. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe he wasn’t getting a dog after all. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Now that he’s not so perfect after all, the pressures on me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s strange to think, after all this time, I’m only meeting her now. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Members of the other churches wondered if the Holy Rollers were going to heaven after all their shouting. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a glimmer of hope in my gut as I imagine Dad deciding not to stay at Uncle Spencer’s after all. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dating, after all, only ends one way: poorly. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

So it looked as though I wasn’t going to get in trouble after all. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I knew he wasn’t evil or anything; after all, he'd stopped Hunter from bothering Max last year. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

—After 1 got out of the hospital, and after all the police investigations, and 1 found out that I had to go to court, I was really scared. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't seem like such a bad guy after all. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Odd that the holes are still soft after all this time,” I said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He told Mudd he didn’t need a carriage after all, Booth could still ride a horse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Drowned God loves me after all. Here I was wondering what to do, and he has sent me foes to fight.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It turned out Boots was special weaponry after all. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had she come to save him after all? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She started to think maybe she was dead after all. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was just a child, after all, and had yet to learn what sorrow really was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Who would have believed that our entire educational system was wrong after all? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I can keep my boots on after all.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She is the one who wrote the woman in the white cloak into the story, after all. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We all watch Bob fill in Chad’s blue dot, and I know that something has changed after all. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She was trying to hold on to power, after all. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He held his hands out, palms turning upwards in a slow ballet of bone, marrow intact after all this time, under the crowded sky, against the broken ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The jar was a little dusty, but I think it’s okay—after all, she pecks around in the dirt all day, and that book said she even eats small rocks. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, the taxi driver’s home. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” Brinker curled his lip at me, “your little plot didn’t work so well after all.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Grayson got up, stretched, and told the class, “Looks like it’s going to be a good day after all.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She knew this was foolish—after all, she hadn’t explored the island—but she was so weak she couldn’t help herself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time I knew that that was ridiculous because, after all, I was the criminal. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Old Waldo, Pollard told his friends, had been right after all. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eberechi had never spoken about her feelings for him, after all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’d answered an ad, after all, and would be starting in two weeks as a chambermaid at Brown’s Rooming House in Great Falls. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Go from the land after all these years? Where would we go? How would we live?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, after all the events of the past couple of weeks, Jason seemed more like a legend than a person. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“If you can’t tell me,” he said, “you’d better take it back. There has to be trust on both sides, after all. Nice doing business with you. Sorry it couldn’t go any further.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

At this, Mrs. Bigio had tearfully insisted that the cream puffs were really not that bad after all, and she had put a whole one into her mouth, chewed, and swallowed. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this had not been such a clever plan after all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Come on. It’s the least I can do after all the trouble I’ve caused you.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This isn't just an epigram--life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why—I’m in a public restroom, after all. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Even after all these years, it is hard.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had been deported from England, after all, so perhaps he would not consider himself a returnee like them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t understood it because, after all, clones were like dogs and cats, and humans loved them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess these were silly after all,” she said as Ophie entered. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe my space stories weren’t just a bunch of stories after all. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She waited for him to move away from her, maybe tell her she was a monster after all. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And after all,” she thought, “everything is topsy-turvy tonight.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I have a chance to live after all! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu raised his hand again but the other soldiers held him, dragged him away, said it was just a book after all, told him to drink some more gin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“So, you can use that thing after all.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

No, I will take a look at that list again after all. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Some must have been left, after all, who remembered the Aleuts, for on that morning there were none to be seen. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not, after all, grown up above his father’s Rex Café in gritty South Philly, nor would he have wanted to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I decided not to wear a space suit after all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he could ask the question after all. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he knew more than three words after all. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And after all these years, Xan remembered how annoying she had found it then. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In this case, though, the fear would have been justified—the man, after all, was a violent con. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s not an elaborate prank after all. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were her grandchildren, after all, the son and daughter of her only child. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you got something useful after all that trouble.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe—and this was a surprising thought—Dad’s ideas weren’t so crazy after all. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

My idea of joining whatever club the others chose might not have been great after all. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hide, break the line, climb a tree-which was the best after all? Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Was the acid thrower a woman after all? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“We heard that teachers can’t assign students to the schools after all. We just wondered ...” My voice trailed off. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hmmm, you know, maybe there is something that can be done about this after all.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that would be the best thing after all. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Neither had Dorian, especially not after all his talk of using Nehemia as a hostage to get the Eyllwe rebels to cooperate. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Things are back to normal after all that weirdness on the sledding hill. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’ve read some myself out of pure curiosity and you can see why those officers are glad to be in Ireland after all they put up with in India and Africa and other desperate places. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Letting Algernon out of his cage would throw the meeting into chaos, and after all this was Burt’s debut into the rat-race of academic preferment. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like the beginning of a deep and long sleep, and a warning that, after all, we were to spend the night in the car, in Mexico. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, a crime to speak to Estraven, let alone to feed and clothe and house him, as they did. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And after all, didn’t somebody just make up the word pinna, too?” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe we would have been better off staying in Iran after all. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I could tell she started thinking that maybe this wasn’t about Mr. Tushman getting fired, after all. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Then it must have been a dream,” she said, “after all.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Not much! flies are poor things, after all!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

So Corinthians was almost on her way to becoming an amanuensis after all. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My plan was that I needed the time to take a course in Shakespeare, since I was, after all, an English major. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

My Noise leaps and I look up to see if the girl’s following me out after all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was my signature color, but the hat was designed, after all, for sun protection. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But, no, then he decided after all he wanted to go walk on a city street in Stanleyville, so he went and Mama stayed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So many bad things happen in that book, and she never found out that it all ends reasonably well—after all, I never finished reading her the whole story. That’s what she wouldn’t like.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That, after all, was why he had come to Nigeria. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe that after all these months, his wicked scheme was minutes away from fruition. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It may not be a problem. It’s just a game, after all. Games are fun,” he told the patient. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t think dropping the atom bomb qualifies. It was war, after all,” Jonah says, pushing his long hair away from his eyes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

We are, after all, a planet where the rain contains vitamin B12! The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Newcomen could have invented all this and more; after all, he worked on his new engine for some fourteen years before he was ready to put it into public operation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Matthias was glad of the brief respite after all the excitement. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But I was ashamed to let the Lord see me frightened after all the things he had said about the former me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, he thought, it is not too late, after all, for me to be saved. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

After a minute or so he realized that they had, after all, come to the right place, for here were Bill and Fleur, Dean and Luna, gathering around him as he knelt over the elf. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Dupont, after all, would not have known who had been given the replicas of the diamond; he had no insight into the last-second safeguards of the museum. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it ain’t such a bad idea after all, babe. You know what I mean?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Libby wasn’t lying about the meteor shower after all, or can sense things about the future that even I can’t. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

"Nice to see your grandson visiting you after all these years." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At stake, after all, is the world’s greatest forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We still had to be lab partners, after all. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that I have not traveled so very far after all, since I wrote my little play. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But now the thirty-sixth suitcase had just walked right up and found him, after all this time. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The beacon of the Lighthouse of Alexandria was, after all, the passengers’ first direct glimpse of their destination. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She has a brief moment where she thinks maybe she got hit by lightning after all. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She is still with me, invisible, wrapping me in warmth and painlessness, she has heard me after all. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe her city was real after all, and these were instructions for finding it! The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

You could see it in the early evening, glowing on the western horizon, and if you got up early, you could still see it in the morning, after all the stars had disappeared. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After all she’s done, after all she didn’t do, they shouldn’t be clapping. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When it seemed there was a chance of him surviving after all, his father began to teach him the rudiments of education, intending him to have a career in the church. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But after all the anxiety, their first contact with Indians went surprisingly easily. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I see,” Richard said, and as he went back indoors he made sure not to let his dejection show; he walked straight and reminded himself that he was, after all, the master. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I promised; after all, I felt that I owed her something for inadvertently making her ridiculous before the members of her church. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mr. Jones will help me after all. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The dress will be modest and plain. You would not want to be mistaken for one of the guests, after all.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the dancers had stirred her after all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Right. But the worst of it is, they don't give Mr. Shakespeare a farthing for it. And it is his work, after all." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘At the very latest I shall come back for the farewell party. I think after all you may need my company on the Road.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“They probably went after all those secrets stored in the Pentagon. I bet they stole all our secret files and spies and stuff.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Things were not quite so bad, after all. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about it a lot that whole afternoon, and finally I decided that I didn’t think A was for anchovies after all. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thirsty, and I’m angry, and I think maybe I’d rather face the nightmares than this, after all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had no proof it was mine, after all. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Still, after all this time, every time I talk about it the tears come to my eves. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The banks turned out not to be such a disappointment after all. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, one of the flaps had had enough and caved in after all of that poking and stabbing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had a Talent for it, after all. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Einstein’s biggest blunder might not have been a blunder after all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

My laughter was unreal after all, merely a gasp for air. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even now it seemed quite likely that when she turned round and looked at him she would draw back after all. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And after all, a thousand pesos was not to be thrown away. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were written during the thirties, but much of it would still be up to date - after all, I do not imagine German bombs have altered our countryside so significantly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Spare us all the melodrama, Faraday. This is, after all, the consequence of your decision to take on two apprentices when one would have been sufficient.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Yet after all my task was not an easy one; often I would rather have pleased than teased him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mack and the boys drank the whiskey, after all they weren’t crazy, but all the talking they did was “Good luck,” and “Lookin’ at you.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Dad said maybe chickens were pretty useful after all. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Omakayas was well aware that she shouldn’t stay so close to these cubs, but after all, they seemed deserted. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

So he hadn’t been pouting after all; he’d been resting up and planning for his labors. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

"I find I am not hungry after all," he said, climbing awkwardly off the bench. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And his parents’ first priority after all that had happened was to get him into a new school so he could make the most of his senior year. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it be something if he did find the spy’s footprint after all? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

George Weston, after all, was only a man—poor thing—and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Odin had but one eye, after all, and sometimes his aim could be less than perfect. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Sensing an opportunity, Miss Peregrine said, “You see, children? The future isn’t so grand after all. Nothing wrong with the good old here and now!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I kind of liked the sparkly beads after all. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Those titles were just a joke, after all. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A thought strikes me: Perhaps I will return home in glory after all. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“And even after all this time, my daddy’s still not allowed to treat white patients. Like their diseases are high class or something.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And then—can you believe it?—the miracle came after all. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

"I don't think I need to go after all." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I realize that the colors are not so important after all; it’s the dot and the growing size and faster spin of the clouds. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We were even after all, even in enmity. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

So innocent little Pearl was not so innocent after all, Mrs. Richardson thought on her way back to the office. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"This is what Nergal's been after all this time," I said. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

What was their great battle over mitigated speech and teamwork all about, after all? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Your friends, after all, occupy the same world that you do. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as he later said, "We had done our best and, after all, it was just another radio show." Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

What was the point of having a younger sister if you couldn’t make her do your dirty work, after all? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Chipper had, after all, eaten the family Bible the winter before, chewed right through it from Genesis to Revelation, shredding generations of inscribed Hickams in the process. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many mythic heroes in Greek and Norse mythology, after all, made celebrated efforts to visit Hell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it had been a joke after all, and she was already running a list of suspects through her mind. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We had accomplished something nearly scientific, after all. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

To this day I can’t imagine why, after all that time, the pilot suddenly lost his nerve. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the tiredness suddenly catching up with us—after all, we’d been travelling since before dawn—but I wasn’t the only one who went off into a bit of a dream in there. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except it looked like we wouldn’t get that chance after all. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Which means those three letters weren’t from you, after all. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And, after all, if ghuls and jinn walk our world, then why not forces of good too? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Love, after all I done told you tonight, don’t you know they ain’t nobody in the world I want to live with cept you? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“In the end, I felt hope. I realized that my soul was not permanently scarred after all. I was still a human being.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And after all that watching, she figured the crab deserved a name, and so she gave it one: Zerubabel. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Or hide your book in its birthday suit—after all, sometimes no disguise is the best disguise of all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was Thor, after all, and there was no drinking horn he could not drain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Hazel could have pressed his chin glands for satisfaction, but he replied merely, “We shan’t need to go down the hill so much, after all.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone to Master’s room herself, after all, and she must have known about Mama’s plan. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She shook her head and finally, after all that coaxing, sat down. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I could tell by the look in her eyes that I’d hurt her feelings, after all. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are, after all, precisely the kind of lower-income kids who Alexander identified as losing ground over the long summer vacation, so KIPP’s response is simply to not have a long summer vacation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Ayres’s black and female car buyers, after all, gave one really obvious sign after another that they weren’t stupid and naïve. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’ll get a screen test with Warner Brothers after all,” I mused. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

"When it comes to swords, a queen is only a woman after all." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He tasted the deep heartrock of the earth, where the water came from, and he thought maybe this wasn’t the end after all. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The least you could do,” Mother said, “is fill out these thank-you cards. It was your mother, after all.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘You would have done better to come with us after all, poor old Fredegar!’ said Pippin, as they carried him out too weak to walk. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“This is for you, Coraline. For your own good. Because I love you. To teach you manners. Manners makyth man, after all.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Like stone under the saw. Try a chisel, like iron. Then, after all the shouting was done, I couldn’t char it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The how doesn’t matter as much as what I do before it goes down, but not knowing is still freaking shaking me; you only die once, after all. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"You're innocent, after all. I thought you'd like to know that. Your lawyer came to get you yesterday. Too bad you weren't here." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Osh was not much interested in anything beyond the places where he sailed and walked, none of them as far even as Penikese, which was not so very far from us, after all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They looked so terrible, but maybe they were not bad after all. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently Beth hasn’t changed that much after all. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

None of us, after all, can be taught how to create. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she remembered, too, every bouquet after all this time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It used to be a planet. I can’t believe you two geniuses don’t know that after all the space videos you’ve watched!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Which is what ended up happening, after all. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were, after all, two of the most accomplished letter writers of the era, men who had fashioned over long careers at the writing desk distinctive prose styles that expressed their different personalities perfectly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s not that the Cape of Good Hope itself is too dry for agriculture: it is, after all, the breadbasket of modern South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have a surplus of space suits, after all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here you are, after all, at the top of your profession, every aspect of your domain well under control. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just, we don’t know to what degree we’ll succeed. If any. My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They’re the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We had, after all, walked a long way to get here. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She’s living with Uncle Pa again because he said she wasn’t a fat cow after all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“How can you not even try, after all she’s done for us?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I thought everyone else had a better excuse to grieve than we did—after all, they hadn’t killed her—but I knew better than to try to talk to the Colonel when he was mad. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Traditional notions of the king in society, after all, brooked no possibility of “exploitation” in the modern sense. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

And nobody, but nobody, gets on our six without a warning, because he is, and knows he is, after all, the Corkinator.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This, here in the provinces, was where the war was being fought, after all. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The more she thought of it the more she thought that it might, after all, be a cancer. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mack says Ruby’s not picking up the slack after all. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I stood there pitying Mr. Ludsbury for his fatal thinness and reflecting that after all he had always had a gullible side. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all her valiant resistance, though, the child was, after all, only a child. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he must have thought, after all these decades, his mother tongue, Afrikaans, was on its way to supplanting English as the language of the land. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what would a flood of memories do to Javier after all these years? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The laughter was soon forgotten, perhaps because nobody had ever fully believed the prince story—Kayode, after all, always called Emenike Bush Boy behind his back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Though I knew that we did not own the house, I thought that the least my father could do was to fix it; after all, we lived in it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe being a virgin is going to pay off after all. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There was some color, some hope, some life in this war after all. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know the modern world tends not to agree with me, but after all, Plato had only one teacher, and Alexander.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The day after all the excitement, Toby had drifted down the alley just to look things over, and he had found the land of Egypt boarded up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet never suffered—and that is a factor of major importance, in a winter-journey where an hour’s exposure can, after all, cripple one for a week or for life. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

How this came about, after all the years her application had been denied, I will never know. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“More than that. Really make it special. It’s Effie, after all,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know why she was telling me now, after all this time. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The author seems to realize the problem as he proceeds, so he tacks on such that to signal that he is contrasting the two hypotheses after all. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And the bats hadn’t drunk his blood after all. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out the folded dollar bill of Will’s, still in my coat pocket after all this time. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

At him, even now, after all these years. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And staying because maybe Lily does love the new Jenna as much as the old one, after all. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe Silas would smell his treat out there and get a decent breakfast after all. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew what he had meant: There were important things, and then there were things not so important after all. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Never mind, it was my room now, after all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Television, after all, has plots that, while interesting, are not personal. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Az had been her husband, after all, and Tally had only met the man once. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Maxine doesn’t mind, it’s on their way, after all, and she is curious by now to meet his parents. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have to do this on my own after all. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

That is, after all, why we scythes are here. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We are in a room full of Dauntless, after all. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t, not now, not after all of this. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I guess DC isn’t so bad after all. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The other boy steps forward, wipes his palms on his jeans, and then stuffs them in his pockets, apparently deciding not to offer one after all. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At such a time, the Negro can look at the starlit skies and find that he has, after all, a place in the universal order of things. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it is different from all the numbers on the list, it can’t be on the list—but we already assumed our list contains all real numbers; after all, it was a perfect seating list. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I guess I laughed because my first snowstorm was over and it had not been so terrible after all. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that he had decided against it, had put out his hand so that he could begin to help Hooper down, after all, would not count. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He thought of his father standing at the phone last night, haunted by the persistent ringing, and he thought, I should have sold the chocolates, after all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The English invaded to silence these questions, and they were sure they would easily win—after all, their army and navy were the best in the world, and they were fighting against mere ex-slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They went back to the first patrol car and talked some more on the radio, and after all that, one of them went over to Nathan and helped him stand up. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let him scare you off, kid. He’s decent enough after all the growling.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But on second thoughts he decided that there was, after all, some sense in it. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the least I could do after all the trouble these two caused.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was a stranger in our family, even after all those years. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He thought, there is something wrong, something she has not felt able to tell me, she is not altogether happy here, after all. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They came after all, right on schedule, right before Day is to enter the firing squad yard. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"I guess we get to be heroes, after all, eh, cuz?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“If more show up, maybe the Faire will actually happen, after all.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe this would turn out well after all. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s in shock after all those hours underground. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

You could imagine the Brown Pelican standing over the Black-Backed Gull at the moment when the gull most needed him and saying that maybe the sky won’t be lost after all. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were still climbing gently, but they now went much quicker, and with better heart; for it seemed to them that the Forest had relented, and was going to let them pass unhindered after all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he was not a true writer after all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the eyes of the world, we’re doomed, but if, after all this suffering, there are still Jews left, the Jewish people will be held up as an example. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m moments away from my meeting, I’m suddenly gripped with the feeling that maybe I don’t want to be here after all. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Now I know you’re the strangest one in the family after all. And you had some stiff competition!” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did she ask you?” she demanded with a groan, and Mia bit her tongue and reminded herself that her daughter was, after all, fifteen. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“One day you might be unable to control your tongue after all, and I’d land back in that ridiculous story again. No thank you very much!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I pointed out that the building wasn’t square, he pointed out that this was 1968 after all, and times were changing. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, if she thinks she can just have a relationship with me after all this time, she’s mistaken.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We have an enormous crowd that night—a “straw house,” so named because after all the regular seats sell out, roustabouts spread straw on the hippodrome track for the overflow crowd to sit on. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She was mimicking what she’d seen the gardeners do — after all, she’d spent more of her life with humans than with bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘No, after all I believe your plan is probably the best.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I would have spared myself the trouble—after all, it was for Richard Parker and he would have dis­patched it with expert ease—but for the hook that was embedded in its mouth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I guess basketball was what he did for a living after all. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She thought she already knew the answer—an ibbur was the soul of a Jewish person, after all—but she asked anyway. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It’s my car, after all, and my mission. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were four girls in the citadel, after all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But the truth is I haven’t written in it much after all, because there isn’t much to write about. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t trying to win the theory purse, after all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was sure I was having premonitions that Lio had not escaped after all. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put me to sleep. This is a kill shelter, after all.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was going to be a good evening after all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, I realize, he wasn’t really such a sound sleeper after all. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Melanie began to get the feeling that maybe Toby wasn’t just there to tease and cut up after all. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, very gravely, I said, “You must stay close to me. Michelangelo may be there. He is the prior of the abbey, after all.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s strange how we can remember so much of it after all this time, how it felt, what happened afterward,” he said, his words getting quieter. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She frowned, wondering if maybe some of the old rules didn’t apply in Pittsburgh after all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Boys are part of the reason we aren’t friends anymore, after all. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We didn’t take the D train after all: Dad drove Mom’s car into the city and we must have both been feeling quiet, because we hardly talked at all. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Besides, it’s about time Our Lady came to Africa. Don’t you wonder how come she always appears in Europe? She was from the Middle East, after all.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I made my bed, found I wasn’t hungry after all, and lay down. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like me and Spanish might belong together after all if we gave each other a chance. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

No one bothers with the words of the mad, after all. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black elites found they had much to gain by positioning themselves as “race managers,” and many poor African Americans became persuaded that perhaps their degraded status was, after all, their own fault. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t so hard to find where the hippie lived, after all. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even after all that had happened, the bitterness and disappointment in his voice cut me to the heart. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I thought you might; after all, she’s your sister as well as my Mother. Well, no matter. I’m jolly well going to ask the Lion himself if he can help me.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Rowing was, after all, a quintessentially British sport, and the 1936 British Olympic eight-man crew hailed from the venerable old Leander Club. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then I find I’m not ashamed after all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn’t a witch after all. Is that supposed to be the lesson of all this? That I should be nice to her?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We hoped you would join us. He’s meeting with us because of you, after all.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And Smith had been right about War Admiral: Riddle’s camp announced that the horse would not be coming to the Santa Anita Handicap after all. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart had done a little leap, because in a single stroke, with that little laugh of agreement, it felt as though Tommy and I had come close together again after all the years. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was fierce; not a fairy, after all, but a demon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was an American, after all, and the Russians were the enemy! Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, after all that waiting, Pong heard the soft pop of a mango stem. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He had, after all, actually dealt with yellow fever firsthand, while Currie had merely studied the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The Igbo were, after all, a people who deposed gods that had outlived their usefulness. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘A pity to throw your life away for a cabbage, after all we’ve done together.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tree is, after all, just a tree. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Caroline’s voice, after all, was our school treasure. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were a very competitive group, after all. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“More often than not, people assume that the mamba always will win—he is, after all, large, venomous, and quick.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics, according to Rahel, was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was heading toward the library—and yes, I know it’s not open on Friday but who knows if a miracle might happen and it would be open after all? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure what he was talking about when I was younger, but now I get it—I don’t think my life is too hard-knock after all. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I...I...I’m afraid it’s no good after all,” James murmured, shaking his head. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I just worried that my legs wouldn’t take me very far after all the walking we’d done today and yesterday, after the car broke down. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The lonely flower had not been forgotten after all. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although I was now almost nineteen and longed to join my brother and sister, after all my parents had been through I couldn't refuse their plea for me to stay with them. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

There are not very many of them, after all. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was not, after all, a great difference between the world of the North and that of the South which she had fled; there was only this difference: the North promised more. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She might be ill-tempered, he thought, but it was with a certain amount of justification, after all. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Clarice would not have noticed about Maxim’s bed after all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

How good it felt—warm, cozy, and comforting—after all he had been through this terrible afternoon. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the terrible irony—there was no picture after all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not like the way they watch him now, as though he might have value after all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

OK, on second thought, maybe honesty isn’t the best policy after all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And from the smug look on her face, I was pretty sure she understood how much I liked math, after all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would be so relieved to have real food after all those years of frozen dinners. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“So why, after all I put you through, do you still love me?” she finally said, and slipped the nail file into her purse. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never did stop in on the college counselor to tell her she’d been wrong—that I was Princeton material after all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It made me think maybe brown eyes weren’t so boring after all. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Then I wasn’t in any danger after all? They wouldn’t have killed me?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There couldn't be any kind of truce between them, after all. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Well, after all, the game just started, maybe they’re on their way. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She married a man who soon left her; that man became a myth; and then that myth returned home and proved to be just a man after all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was her house, after all, and her prerogative, a phrase she used often when anyone wanted to sass her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His appetite, he said, was huge—he’d missed lunch, after all. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Mama would have to stay at the Night Zoo; they wouldn’t be leaving after all. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And I don’t want to complain or anything, but a tip would have been nice, since it was me, after all, who brought the god back to her. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, the path he had followed to prosperity. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he observed, “I am relieved that this has turned out well after all. What will you have me do with the baggage, ma’am?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

So Captain Cook did not die, after all. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t want to hurt Ray, after all. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I can’t go home. Not after all that’s happened. Anyway, whatever help I can be, I owe you that and a lot more. You were all perfectly safe until I got here.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She says how long it’s been since the aunts have seen me, how the littles are my cousins, too, after all. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And sure you hear that sometimes here, men are men after all, but more of the time the Noise is songs or it’s prayers or it’s directed to the work at hand. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally coaxed him out, after all the splashing and laughter, he would sit on the edge of the tub and twist his knuckles into his eyes, which were red from the soapy water. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good thing you didn’t have that extra hot dog after all,” Audrey said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It is only a party, after all. Anyway, I suppose this is what is meant by ‘growing up.’” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“She is my daughter after all. This is just the way I was on the day of my wedding.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She had, after all, raised five very special daughters of her own. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I realize that perhaps, after all, she isn’t so different from me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella had helped her mother clean up after all the guests had left. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean to tell me, friend John, that you have no suspicion as to what poor Lucy died of; not after all the hints given, not only by events, but by me?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Next thing they were up in musty blackness, swinging silver hatchets at doors that were, after all, unlocked, tumbling through like boys all rollick and shout. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the veins of this city he loved, after all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“And it turns out the party will be on Christmas Day, after all!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

That one would be the eighty-second Lord of Stormhold and Master of the High Crags; it was, after all, how he had attained his own title several hundred years before. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

For a brief moment they were hopeful that the girls were all right after all. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was an unknown, after all—an unpredictable new slave. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I doubt my parents will let me. Not after all...all this.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe this had been an okay idea after all. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But there’s an undertone, like an invisible nod, as if something he wants to suspect has come true after all. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t easy to always be the one making the overtures of friendship, since I was, after all, the new member on the team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But I remind myself that Elizabeth is paying her, after all. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"I've been telling your mother for years to apply for asylum. Who could turn her away after all your father did and what happened to him? And after all he did for those soldiers?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

What we didn’t tell the men was that we had not rented the house, after all. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, they’d had their differences; but after all they’d been through together, Frank didn’t want to see Leo get his heart broken. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They gobbled down the candies and were out again, kicking up the powdery dust in the road and worrying if there was going to be time to get to town after all. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a man's needs, after all, and they had spent that year apart, Ned off at war in the south while she remained safe in her father's castle at Riverrun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And with this doubt his whole statement fell to pieces and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him after all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even now, I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan; after all, it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s your precious necklace. You get to wear it, after all.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He had no personal grudge against the children that she knew of, but, after all, he was a very enigmatic coachman. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She was going to have to talk to the fancy lady ghost after all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

So I am not flying alone now after all. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But after all of these years, I had finally come to realize that depending on anyone other than myself was a recipe for failure. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And finally, after all that, I chew the seed up. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I decided I had better not go to the cave after all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, a work from the Age of Mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He was, after all, a physician, and his building had a pharmacy on the ground floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“So that education may not be that bad after all.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m going to go to Erin’s party after all,” I said, feeling a little cocky. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

If we were happy here, then maybe the move was right after all. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was, after all, perched on his brow all this while—until tonight, and this new experience of his back—and there was a strange intimacy in that. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“From the look of things, the mine owners and bootleggers aren’t the only ones making money after all.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had once laughed at Obinze’s refusal to fly British Airways, because it was, after all, what the big boys flew. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The kraken’s daughter turned out to be just a woman after all, the captains and the kings would say. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He slid back the bolt and opened the door and—it was not a toolshed after all. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“You win. I’ll leave, do a bit of hunting. I am, after all, a creature of the night. Meantime, you get to work.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But it touched her that he had found his way to serve the underground after all—taking care of its womenfolk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the teacher, after all, and the decision ought to be hers. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He was still recovering, after all, and maybe it wasn’t the first thing on his mind. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did have more faith than Charles, however; she was, after all, a child of Emma’s, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

MOTHER: Look at what you started, Anita, I hope you’re satisfied, such nice people, after all they have done for us. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain suspected another snoop on the island—that was why he’d changed the door codes, after all. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this is an aspect of the way we build language after all. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But after all,” Kissinger said, “we make decisions very differently now.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The danger which he presented was, after all, not immediate but slow and simmering, a sort which can, at least in the abstract, be postponed or diverted in any number of ways. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I hesitate—my dad is a doctor, after all, and holy unhygienic, Batman!—but then she starts wiggling it and making her eyebrows dance. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then turning back to me, he added: 'So we can have our talk after all. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

And in that moment, Adina knew she was not her mother after all. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They continued to dig until late afternoon, long after all the other groups had finished for the day. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Everything turned out all right after all; Bep just had a sore throat, not the flu, and Mr. Kugler got a medical certificate to excuse him from the work detail. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Tick—who was after all just a roach. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe things were working out for me after all! Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Shooting Star will not be opening for Bikini after all. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first told my parents I was not going into Biology after all but was going to be an artist, they reacted with alarm. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this place wasn’t so foreign after all. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Abby filled me in after Mr. Griggs called this afternoon and told me what you kids were planning, and I think it’s brilliant. I’d like to help. I’m the mayor, after all.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He went out, and soon after all the others followed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And the blaze of their colors made this room look, not exactly cheerful, but at any rate rich and majestic after all the dust and emptiness of the others. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But then Marcus said he didn’t need the futon after all. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’d been raised, after all, in a family that believed in forethought—that ran fire drills at home and showed up early to everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t left the building and ditched Tad after all. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Jermaine had got tired of trying to read his papers by candlelight for the past week after all the power in our apartment went out. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I see that you are somewhat more than a cheesemonger after all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rue . . . so she made it through the first day after all. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It feels good to say something horrible about him, out loud, in public, after all the humiliation I’ve felt since his return. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I can sleep on the floor. This is his room, after all.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And then, after all that, it said, "I love you, son," and was signed, "Your mother." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Who knows, after all, when her own power might fade? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

You could judge most folks by the company they kept, after all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I felt a flush of relief; maybe I wouldn’t have to explain myself after all. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m not so different from everyone else after all. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t going to the labor camp in Lwów after all, he said. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This is one thing that leads me to believe he may not be genetically linked to my father after all. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

How else, after all, to know how to read those silences? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t he there at the request of a city official, after all? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I think the voices are coming from above. Maybe the firefighters or the cops are here after all. Come on.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When Oppie called to tell him he would rejoin the Berkeley faculty after all, Lawrence responded, “Good, I can clip your wings a little.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My mother is not the best housekeeper in the world, and after all these years that Bible is still clean white. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to hope that after all this wasn’t going to be such a bad war. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, at one of those late night parties in Toby’s room that I first developed my taste for chocolate cake. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mommy, after all, did not really look like me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

April 20 Not that far away after all. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was not going to be much use, after all. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

"Well," he said casually, "perhaps you're not such a bad sort after all, for a country wight." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The driver, not dead after all, fought back. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He had, after all, come to New Orleans at the behest of his company. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I thought if I could shout loudly enough, or move quickly enough, perhaps the earache would return and I would know the medicine had been a sham after all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She, after all, is the reigning head of the family. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But this was, after all, Sayle’s private house and any security would have been designed to stop people coming in, not leaving. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I guess I won’t have to worry about getting back to my chair after all. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t been such a bright idea after all. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, Eleanor’s sister whispered in the privacy of the marital bedroom, perhaps Dr. Montague—if that really was his name, after all—perhaps this Dr. Montague used these women for some—well—experiments. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But when she saw how disappointed Laura was, she said she might go, after all, for a little while. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was getting the feeling that Gaskill wasn’t on my side after all, and I was starting to feel tearful again. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mia was used to stares—this was New York, after all—and like all women she had learned to ignore them, as well as the catcalls that sometimes accompanied them. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she chastised herself for thinking mean thoughts—after all, these ladies were here to help. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But nothing could be done about Mother’s nose, after all. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to contradict her, because after all she might have been right. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He would live in Lagos, after all, and he would make sure he saw her as often as he could. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But she liked the design, after all, and they arranged to have it silk screened on five hundred red T-shirts, which they shipped north. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We have offered it, and they have refused. It is no use going in the face of that They would probably burn you after all.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Please leave me, now that you've gotten your gifts. I want a little privacy. It is my birthday, after all." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I knew he’d come to his senses. Family is family, after all.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Their work had focused on aviation; after all, airplane cockpits were the place where human beings were most acutely confronted with new technologies, powerful ones that taxed our neurological limitations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was, after all, the lady of the estate, and it fell to her to pay for one of the better combat schools for her charges, should she be so inclined. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It had to be recognized, after all, that I was still a schoolboy, with my schoolwork to do, and I was also expected to prepare at least one sermon a week. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The fleeting warmth of Rajiv’s lips on my skin brought it all rushing back—Phil’s touch, his lips, his fingertips and a feeling that is not so fleeting after all. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There’d only been about ten of those in all of history, after all. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe the New Dealers weren’t so bad after all. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe Appa does have a brother after all, and this man is my real uncle. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Suppose after all his trouble he hadn’t found me guilty of anything, and on a slow day. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another irony he failed to appreciate: His struggle to mold me in his image had been successful after all. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean there’s something he could do to make you kill him, after all?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was, after all, a politician’s politician and he knew what he was doing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after all these years, he cringed if a black Volkswagen passed him on the street. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He sunned himself in their new respect and felt that hunting was good after all. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But Grandpop had a girl’s name as a guy’s name and was cool with it, so maybe his name wasn’t necessarily a girl’s name after all. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She saw it as her only chance too, after all the village gossip about their family. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t stop, I’m gonna call Taylor Swift and tell her you changed your mind and want to go to her Fourth of July party after all.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I knew that after all the protests,” he later wrote, “American public opinion would be seriously divided by any military escalation of the war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And after all, I did get an A on that last test. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He, James, would rather sleep on the bathroom floor, after all. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are going to New York after all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“They had some, Tommy. Oh, never mind. It was a sweet idea. I’m really touched. It was a great idea. This is Norfolk, after all.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew Daddy would be disgusted at her for bragging, but after all, Joe had to be told, didn’t he? Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

That fool thinks he can just waltz back in here, after all these years. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But after Grandpa went off to Jefferson in the buggy with Miss Love, it dawned on me that now Granny’s passing wasn’t so plain after all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was the fact that Malfoy did, after all, look a little ill. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have to go to jail over silk panties after all. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The only glitch had been when the ring vibrated, giving off a little alarm, refusing immunity to his grandmother’s new husband because he was a bot after all. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t say. But it’s not as if he will get nothing. Daddy will still give him ten percent, after all.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The thought of turning back after all this labor was more than I could bear. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Golly Moses, she thought, it was only a tiny crab, after all. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The strangest thing was how we found out that Mr. Underhill wasn’t the Rattler after all. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“She’s laughing, Reggie! This friendship could turn into romance after all! It is a thing of beauty watching these two open up to each other!” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

But, after all, they were a fine crew now, weren’t they? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our destination turned out not to be the town of Ensenada, after all, but about five miles out of the city limits. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up at me sideways, slyly, and I saw that it would be better if we could both pretend I’d eaten my breakfast after all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the 586th’s assignment came, they were disappointed to find that they weren’t being sent to the front after all. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Old Grandma was back in her chair beside the stove after all day outside under the elm tree, and she would listen carefully for Josiah to pour water into the tin basin. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was Jomo’s useless flowers, after all, that attracted the birds. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"What are you worried about, Meriyn? Are we going to lose this battle, after all?" The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t. I remember that young boy sobbing in the dark. Clear as a bell after all these years.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Good question. Why would you? What would be the point, after all?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Alex has always known his gay American history—after all, his parents’ politics have been part of it—but it wasn’t until he figured himself out that he started to engage with it like Henry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe Satan had entered the room after all because everybody started talking very loudly. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the others he felt good about Bud Gleason, in spite of Bertha and the kid—after all, he and Bud were friends. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed there was a basis to their conversation after all. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Who else could hear the world buzzing, after all? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next Day of Sacrifice was approaching, after all. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was for Wernher von Braun, after all. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it had been quite personal after all. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After Hang Wood, he had not wanted to come in here, it had reminded him of his own failure, his ultimate loss of control over things, after all the careful planning. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Dr. Benjamin Rush was, after all, living proof that the disease could be beaten. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Food is, after all, the center of our lives in many ways, even if we no longer pay very much attention to it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He had never seen himself run, after all. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I expect we shall get on very well when she knows me better,” I said quickly, “after all, it’s natural enough that she should resent me a bit at first.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought after all of those wins in the United States on the national circuit that I had proven that I could handle a major competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he was not so different from the other students after all. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I have made something of myself, something or other, after all. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was surprised: it was easy to tell, after all. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren’t bad. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She was fifty-two, after all, considered elderly in a time when life expectancies hovered around forty years old. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“If I believed that were possible, after all my suffering.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But perhaps after all I is letting you have a little peep.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if it’s poison? It came from a poisonous cauldron, after all...” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Was there only one world after all, which spent its time dreaming of others? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents, after all, had not much cared for him, and certainly, if there was any profit in it, they would have sold him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

And then, on November Saturday nights, I’d be over to the Daughertys’, who had decided to give me a chance after all. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But it appeared that she wasn’t going to be able to case the joint after all. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She was, after all, in a part of the conversation she had rehearsed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We thank all of our distinguished international guests for having come to take possession with the people of our country of what is, after all, a common victory for justice, for peace, for human dignity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The perpetrators, after all, weren’t thinking about their private actions being made public. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And what the hell—a car’s a car, after all. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The windmill, however, had not after all been used for generating electrical power. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He’d ridden into their cities mounted on a spectral, after all, and most of them assumed he was from Weep—at least, until Thyon Nero disabused them of that notion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Possibly not forever, except, as they say, trailing clouds of glory, if that theory really is true after all and they do send some sort of chariot, possibly presently you will be on it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she certainly wasn’t going to be defied—not after all she’d done to get the family here. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Cooter’s pretty good at tracking so maybe this was a mystery after all. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

"I have to keep my scholarship after all." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Day of Sacrifice only came once a year, after all, and he liked to look his best during the sober procession to the cursed house, and during the somber retreat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Could it be that the horse was not Seabiscuit after all? Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look what this idiot did to my eyebrows after all the help I gave them!” she says, pointing. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The bridge had been bombed after all, so we watched them come in line after line over the railroad bridge, the smoke of the burning synagogue still rising black behind them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bonnie and Twill, the District 8 refugees who I encountered in the woods last winter, weren’t so far from their destination after all. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“So I was hoping that you might have changed your mind . . . that you were going to change me, after all.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You lived this way for forty years! You kept on long after all the other communities and communes shut down and disappeared! Why stop now?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They will be available to her from restaurants, brought up to the flat by servants, bearing a taste that after all these years she has still not quite managed, to her entire satisfaction, to replicate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miep went to ask if Dr. Dussel couldn’t manage to come on Saturday after all, but he said no, and now he’s scheduled to arrive on Monday. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This girl might just be a genius after all. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even after all this time, I half expect to hear Quinton yell at me for barging into his room without his permission. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“There is sweetness in life. Even after all of this, I will help you look for it. If you will try.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even now, after all those years, Paradise Pickles’ bottles still leaked a little. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In most families there comes, now and then, a year full of events. This has been such a one, but it ends well, after all.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sardauna, after all, had not only been premier of the North, he had also been the spiritual leader for this man and so many Muslims like him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this latter finding should not have been so surprising: after all, Lawrence himself was still thoroughly preoccupied with his other work—namely, the construction of the 184-inch cyclotron on the hillside above the university. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Azkaban must have unhinged Black after all — but why was Lupin playing along with him? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe there was something to this rat business, after all. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had found her too plump, after all. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he knew that through these last weeks she had been hurting after all, and that it had been himself, not Beans, who had hurt her the most. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Only the good Lord knows the answer to that, but that’s not surprising, because after all He created everything.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Shooting people who get in your way is a Dauntless trait, after all.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Colin still paid attention—it was, after all, what he did—but much of his brainpower was elsewhere. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

And after all, November 10 was only the day listed as my birthday. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I might still be a child now, after all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They wanted nothing more than to be seen, after all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Muslim students were always demonstrating about one thing or the other, after all, and harassing people who were Western-dressed, but they always dispersed quickly enough. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Calvin and I are dirty after all our work. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I began to feel as if I were alone again after all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The two of them, after all, had read every last color card without a hitch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It makes me happy to think there must be somebody left to remember her, even after all this time. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As I turn back, I see my purse, lying on the floor where I put it, and after all these years I should know better. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was eleven and very smart, that I granted, but after all he was so small. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

How foolish it was to worry and assume the worst—it was Christmas, after all! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

How rude, I thought; after all, we were here to pay them compliments. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer wondered if he was going to end up like Jackson Boy after all. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, he seemed to consider helping me pack—after all, he had run away from Dad at my age—but I shook my head. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe Daddy was right—maybe now she was a completely different person after all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone had a breaking point, after all, and the fact that Joaquin had spent almost three years with Mark and Linda and he still hadn’t been able to find theirs made him nervous. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

You would think that having Lula as a friend would be a great relief to me after all my brothers, and generally this was so, but sometimes she could be a bit sappy. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I say, because really, after all the driving we’ve done around Puerto Rico, I have no idea. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe practiced tricks in the parking lot after all the buses were gone. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Looks like I won't be starving to death on Sol 400 after all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I decided it was a magic square after all, because it was going to bring my friend and me back together. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this day wasn’t so boring after all. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘So this secret way of yours is guarded after all,’ he growled, turning to Gollum. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Guess this is life’s way of telling me I should have gone to the team party after all. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Give me one of those Chiclets, after all,” I asked Mate. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there with the sun on his face, and he thought maybe he might make it after all. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

How many times, after all, had he tried Grover’s line in the days after their drive? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They suggested that the big bang might be a peculiarity of Friedmann’s models alone, which after all were only approximations to the real universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faith in mobility, after all, has been consciously woven into the national self-image. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Thinking of it after all this time, she almost wept at the sadness of all it implied. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For the life of him, after all these years, he couldn’t read the expression on her face. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have made it this far, after all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe he is kind, after all, my uncle. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But it could have been true; Obinze’s mother had liked her, after all. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe some of the Relocation Rules were still worth something after all. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He would have to contact the big ape after all, if only to tell him not to come around. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't mind it, or at least I don't mind it much—love is bound up in truth, after all. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

You don't seem to have much to show for your efforts after all these weeks. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Besides, if this was such a big deal—and it was Henry’s car, after all—why wasn’t he coming, too? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then after a time he went no more to see his sons, but sometimes he would ask Cuckoo, “And are my two daughters-in-law at peace after all these years?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Relief washes through me—maybe I’m not so crazy after all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Brandon was a book snob, but maybe that wasn’t such a bad thing after all. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe they were about to find out who the elves had fought after all. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

My whole project, after all, was to keep one foot in and the other out, to be selfconsciously aware that what I was doing was an experience, not my life. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For after all was he a sensible man or was he not? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

What, after all, had he done to her? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Why are you telling me now, after all this time?” she asked. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

‘Why, they said you was dead! Lost in the Old Forest by all accounts. I’m pleased to see you alive after all!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

You would think, after all we’d been through, that Francis and the twins and I would have kept in better touch over the years. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She would tell herself that, after all, they didn’t know anything definite. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t that old after all, close up. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staying with him might not be so bad after all. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So after all he’d been through, poor Pimpernel was killed by rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, well, Miss Podgórska. You are quite the little manipulator after all.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, then,” Velma T. said, “I guess it serves him right. Besides, it is, after all, three parts elixir to only one part alcohol.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It looked as if the invasion was not going to come after all. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have tracked her down—I was, after all, a reporter—but after a couple of feeble attempts I gave up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s house was the biggest one in the village, and it was rightly so, because after all the village had been largely settled by the Lunas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted me to speak out more, after all. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But as the days passed and the rumblings failed to develop into anything dramatic, people grew restless, and the view became general that the volcano wasn’t going to blow after all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She followed him, leaving us boys to contemplate what had been, after all, our scorched, stinking failures. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad after all that that I had bathed and put on Mum and Cashmere Bouquet talcum powder. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had gotten involved as a witness after all that had happened, I knew her mother would’ve shipped her off to a Tibetan convent for ninety-six years. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Could he really be a rightist after all? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was forced on me as I sat chilled through the chapel service, that this probably vindicated the rules of Devon after all, wintery Devon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the lever hadn’t been there after all. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

To finally get inside the Archives after all this time and not be able to find any of the answers I was looking for was maddening. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Was there really a God after all, and did He punish people on Earth? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

So I guess he decided against the speech after all. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she would be a tenant farmer after all? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Much as his father hated it, Wash and his classmates wouldn’t be in class until after all the cotton was picked. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'd seen them hanging out a number of times, but when he wasn't with Aileen, he was always with the hockey team, and I was beginning to worry he was just another meathead after all. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But after all, Mr. Monroe is a college professor and Mrs. Monroe is a lawyer, so we think of it as a rather special household. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Barack was a unicorn, after all—shaped by his unusual name, his odd heritage, his hard-to-pin-down ethnicity, his missing dad, his unique mind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Vanguard, after all, had managed to fly a yard higher than I had. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight is the talent show, and this is, after all, a school for the arts. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It would be so stupid to kill myself now, he thought, after all I have been through. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were the ones going to all the trouble to save everyone else, after all! Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe we do have something in common after all. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Of course they had to try to steal something—they were starving, after all—and the SS would never miss the little they could take. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We could have used that boy after all! But who says we were going to kill you? Capricorn wants you alive. Dead men can’t read aloud.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So Matt had not lost his job after all. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like eleven o’clock on the night of your birthday, when you realize no one’s throwing you a surprise party after all. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He was a moody, lonely young man, after all, afraid of strangers, awkward even with the adults he knew well, and the cousins were plump blond children of three and four. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out, Brian Boss wasn’t wearing a cup after all. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“He only went after the hawk, after all.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because, after all, there really was something ridiculously out of proportion between the verdict such certainty was based on and the imperturbable march of events from the moment the verdict was announced. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“They think we’re Americans now. And maybe we are! Maybe we don’t belong there anymore after all.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“What about this? It isn’t a reproduction. This is the real deal, circa 1975. Still here after all these years and not faded a bit.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

On another night, she might even have joined them; after all, she could tell a dirty story as well as the rest of them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Schindler was a Nazi, after all, and he had enormous power. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Who was Paul Ellis after all but a nearly illiterate linthead who barely provided for his own family and who drank himself to sleep nearly every weekend night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Papa thought it was the right thing to do; after all, the rancher had let us live in his cabin free while we worked for him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And, after all, she was the one who told me just this morning that I was going to have to get tough this year. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Archie had convinced him that there was no picture, after all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea city still gleamed then, after all, plus this was the city of cities, a place that promised to be recalled as an era. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lou Anne was late, after all, because of a League duty. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After we investigated six corridors without finding the secret passage, and after all of Char’s buttons were gone, we climbed the back staircase. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why after all this time are you asking me out?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Hmm. Perhaps it was a mouse, after all, or the echo of harbor traffic. Pipes do have strange acoustic effects.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there was not to be an expedition after all. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knows, after all, why he is here. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I guess sometimes all grandparents can be embarrassing, or maybe we’re just getting too old for Grands Day, after all. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was a real islander after all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

This was what she suspected about herself, as she looked in her green-tinted mirror, with its brown spot, and many-forked streak, and chipped edge — that she really was, after all, just wrong. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had he, after all, overheard her talking to the others? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes after all the white schoolchildren were safely across, traffic moved. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Only some bundle of oddments, perhaps, after all,’ he thought with a strange sense of relief; but he did not put the bundle down again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And even more surprised, ten minutes later, to discover that Beans did not live in a lean-to or a hole, after all, but in a house. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

That’s when I told Mrs. Rouse that math club maybe wasn’t so bad after all and I wasn’t mad at her for signing me up for it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bank was not very steep after all, and in a moment he was at the top, ready to go on. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“It is difficult to discern the effect of such things, you know. Your perspective is from the inside, after all. The smallest charms can be the most effective.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And so maybe, after all, I had done something to make my father mad. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And I guess I’d forgotten to turn my filter back on after all that honesty, because without really thinking, I said, “Because he has skinny legs?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After Johnny had come home whistling his “Molly Malone” as he ran up the steps, after all had eaten of the lobster, caviar, and liverwurst that he brought home, Mama and Neeley went to bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a man, after all, living alone for years before she had moved in. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he’s not so bad after all,” she says. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It felt nice to think about treats again, after all that time saving for a house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. The excitement. Seeing you again after all these years. Have to rest.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether after all he and Julia had mistaken the time—had slept the clock round and thought it was twenty-thirty when really it was nought eight-thirty on the following morning. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn't such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Already had a Gathering of the Keepers this morning—made a unanimous decision by the sounds of it. Looks like Ben’ll be wishing that arrow had found a home inside his shuck brain after all.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And what about all his talk of honor and propriety, his disapproval of the female customers, who, after all, were only showing him their feet to get fitted for shoes? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were the veins of this city he loved, after all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That’s what he was best known for, after all: the way he chose to see the world around him. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe I would not have the privilege of seeing the governor after all. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never cross the womenfolk! Still, I’ll see if I can't call this way in a day or two after all. Unless the squire o' the manor's at home, that is, by any chance?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had misjudged him, of course, there was nothing wrong after all, for as soon as I spoke this second time he came clear of his dream and began to apologise. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after they began to get to know one another, she discovered that he did not have a girlfriend after all. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She decided she wouldn’t be an actress after all. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who knew, after all, when the next opportunity to earn significant money would come along? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So they're in academic heaven, talking about this professor and that course, this novel and that poem, and all of a sudden I'm afraid that they might turn into good friends after all. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby walked closer, and then she could see it was not wire after all, but a length of silver-colored string, probably left over from a Christmas package. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you all wet? Decide to finally shower after all this time?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Someone had to be the good one, after all. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

What better proof could there be, after all, of his oft-repeated claim that he relied on experience not authority? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I got Ob and May after all those years of having nobody, that was my idea of dying and going to heaven. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

So perhaps I had a chance after all. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“She seemed well enough. She did display some interest in the gossamer-winged butterflies. I wish she had shown more interest in the carrion beetle collection, though. They are, after all, exceptionally fine specimens.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was no one else nearby, after all, and certainly the Gallivespians wouldn’t be able to use it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A month after her wedding, she wrote in wonder, “Is it possible I am to have them, after all—Youth, and Love, and Life?” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mark had gotten on a bus to Spokane, after all. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you’re not such a barbarian after all,” he grunted, exhaling a huge cloud of green smoke. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She reached down to touch the hot, wet, moving mass, surely smaller than anything human, and could feel that it was human after all—fingers, toes, nails, nose. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She included him in her worry, after all, as if Madu was their friend and not just hers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I would tell my father only after the summer was over, when I could announce that, after all, I did know what ‘real work’ is like. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Amaroq has agreed that I can go on two feet. I am, after all, a person.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, after all, they were in the Antarctic, not Hyde Park in London. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe there are gods living up there after all. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know that it matters after all. One has to think of the children some time or other; the sooner the better.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Unless he wasn't who he said he was after all. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even after all their efforts to find it, he felt a violent urge to fling the locket from him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But, after all, what would make them think of me in connection with jobs when for years I had encountered them only casually in the classroom? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was educated, from a well-known family, and after all, wasn’t she bom in St. Louis? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh the bliss and the wonder of being with the family once again after all those weeks of fierce discipline! Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

East River was, after all that speculating, nothing more than a camping ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There hadn’t been, which made sense, since Bitter had spun Pet out of nothing, after all. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“He was the thing that made you belong, after all. He made all the pieces fit together. And without him...” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Failure, after all, just added to our body of knowledge. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was only a Fractional Persian, after all. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then, after all your manipulations are complete, you take the limit: you extrapolate and figure out where the expression is headed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was, after all, a trail of prostrating visitors to Chief’s house, relatives and friends bringing other relatives and friends, their pockets full of requests and appeals. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But because Old Tallow was, after all, an elder, and because Mama had always insisted that Omakayas be polite as possible to her elders, Omakayas pretended to listen to the story. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A dainty white lady at the women’s club luncheon approaches the podium after my speech to say, after all, wasn’t it a shame that I wasn’t able to ‘use’ my Spanish in school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until that very moment she had planned to help Elena; Elena had done so much for her, after all, and anyway, Elena Richardson never stopped until she got what she wanted. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My botany background may come in useful after all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gotten used to it after all these years, but still, there were times when the waste got to him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I see that. You weren’t going to MIT after all.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was the Burgess sisters, after all, who originated the tradition of such statues within the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s suffering from a different kind of syndrome after all. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“For heaven's sake, I should have left you with the marten after all!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was her house, after all, and what was one measly man, black or white, compared to a bear? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Asha herself was spared the worst of it; she was the king’s prize, after all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Something bothering you, princeling? You and Jude don’t get along after all?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

How could Snape be given the Defense Against the Dark Arts job after all this time? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It's not uncommon; Mars has weather and wind and dust, after all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they weren’t at each other this way, all their waking hours, they wouldn't be anything like human, after all. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucky break—the Beach Boys were singing “California Girls,” and we sang along with them because, after all, we were California girls. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Well, it was good for business after all. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Politics had come through the door after all, more or less at Lawrence’s invitation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I know you are the best knight in the world, but be careful ’ow you fight in a wrong quarrel God might strike a stroke for justice, Sir Lancelot after all.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t think I’ll need that second copy after all.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’d talked to him so many times—he was my lab partner, after all—but somehow, this was different. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And suddenly, after all this time, I truly understand what the word dogma means. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He made it to the City Circle after all. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“We haven’t decided, because, after all, there are four of us, and this is a mighty big decision.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

His strict and humble lifestyle made that story believable—after all, someone so powerful could easily have used that power to make himself extravagantly wealthy. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

This was, after all, where she was truly from—her family had once lived in the city before moving to the Night Zoo—but years had passed since she’d been here in person. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Four-fifty,” she said, “after your cut, and I only make about the same after all the costs,” which I found out later was completely untrue. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And my psychiatrist’s questions weren’t weird after all. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because didn’t she, after all, deserve the very best, when it came to sons? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The ’tween deck seems dark after all those sunlit days on the island. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Those muscles weren't just for show after all. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

That he felt South Africa was not such a bad place after all, and he was thinking of someday building a vacation home here. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That’s how I know.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Just in case she decided after all that he should come in. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

"Then do something else for me now. Ask me why I would not kiss you that night. I had kissed you before, when we were younger, after all." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He thought fleetingly of trying to set something up with the D.A., but there again was the problem that people would be missed from lessons; most of them, after all, still had full schedules... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

"Even if you are that good-for-nothing Thorn," he said, "I see no reason to let either of you people through. We guard the wall, after all." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I think not. Some free companies have been known to take women, but... well, they are not Second Daughters, after all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They found it comforting to be reminded that, after all, they were truly their own masters and that the work they did was for their own benefit. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And then she made a face of disgust when she realized that with Nailer’s bad arm, Pima was going to be the rescuer after all. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had cut off contact with Obinze, after all, and so much time had passed, and she was newly in a relationship with Blaine, and happily easing herself into a shared life. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If he paid for his release, what would he do, after all? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe there’s nothing special inside that box after all. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then I imagine what would have happened if I hadn’t had a bag of coal and decide this might not be such a waste of time after all. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature’s life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And she marveled at how, after all these years of rattling loose, she had found in this little creature the first true connection in her life of false, failed connections. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I prayed that we wouldn’t meet anyone I knew and then felt guilty for drawing God’s attention away from serious matters to what was, after all, only an item of vanity. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then she looked Judge Quinzy straight in the eye, exactly as if they were equals, for she was a Swanburne girl after all. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

His modesty and humility made me want to believe he might be anointed after all. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“And you tell us the stories, after all. You be needing a place for that.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is after all the Master of the Universe, the Creator of heaven and earth, the King of kings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It’s strange, even after all these months home, to hear Elizabeth being called Miss Leefolt—not Miss Elizabeth or even her maiden name, Miss Fredericks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Even after all this time, it can still be hard being friends with Auggie. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know anything about his father’s family, after all. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe 1 know a little . . . maybe not so much after all.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe gratitude meant something to him after all. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not surprised,” they would say, “after all, who was she?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If you knew how glad—after all these years! A civilized face. Yes, and civilized clothes. Because I thought I should never see a piece of real acetate silk again.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m the one that will have to fight and work, and climb and wait, and maybe never get in after all.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in her wanted to say yes, but she would not settle for so little, not after all she’d been through. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She’d be getting her cap and gown, and Mom would be taking pictures, and Malcolm would be trying it on while she yelled at him not to wrinkle it after all that ironing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He had hoped that the woman might have some answers for him; after all, she was an adult. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trees have a rather complicated relationship with people, after all. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was something familiar about him, after all. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore, who after all possessed no magical eye, did not see them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This is why they do seem, after all, vaguely familiar to all of us. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me knew not to expect one—I’m the one ignoring him, after all, and he did just want to know about Shoji. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was expecting a test, but instead Mr. Pennyworth said, “I think it is time to spend a few days on practical matters. Time is passing, after all.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“You must have been to school today, after all,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know that the too-strong scent of lavender would be unappealing to him, after all. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment he thought they had not left the wedding after all: They still seemed to be surrounded by people. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

What form this temptation will take, I don’t know, but she’s growing up, after all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is, after all, important to form a clear view of them both technically and in terms of their impact on general morale. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was only a year out of high school, after all. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when he thought Alec might’ve lost his marbles after all, the man suddenly made a sharp turn to the right, running parallel to the expanding fine of flames. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the building’s not going to fall down after all,” Ralph mused. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after all those months flying solo, it was a bit of a relief to be with someone who knew about my premonitions and wasn’t completely freaked. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Surely you, of all people, understand. I have equal aptitude for Erudite as I do for Dauntless and Abnegation, after all.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They only take care of it, after all. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Major Martinez will pilot the MAV remotely from Hermes. It's already designed for remote piloting. It was remotely landed, after all." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried closer and it was now that he saw that the car was damaged after all. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A good cop, after all, wasn’t the one who ticketed you for doing thirty- three miles an hour in a thirty-mile-an-hour zone. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hurts, after all we’ve been through, to have them turn their backs in this way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She hesitated as if trying to think of something to say, then asked, “Tell me, Will, uh, don’t you think your mother will go on to New York City after all?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, I guess you ended up with pretty good seats after all, didn’t you?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Cornell, also astonishingly, was nowhere to be seen, but at least the East had one boat in the race after all, maybe two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“And then...if you’re still awake after all that, you slip your hand under the covers...you slide it back and forth, up your legs and down until...” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just accept this gift, this moment, after all that life has taken from you. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Percy, I’m on your side. I’m the reason you’re here, after all.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I almost forgot to give this to you. From Aibileen, for the Miss Myrna thing? I told her though, y’all cannot powwow on this today, not after all that time she missed in January.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I almost sit down with them now, just to give them something, after all they’ve been through—after what I almost put them through yesterday. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

General Hill had insisted, after all, that the reports of cavalry in Gettysburg were foolish. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dealing with a suspect, after all, not a friend. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even after all this, the distrust was still there. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It looked like I’d found a box of letters, after all! Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

So it seemed sometimes to Wang Lung that after all the silver was more valuable than the land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In his dreams, he is a knight on horseback, carrying a silver sword, and it does not really seem that strange after all. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And when the curtain came down and I could be free, I didn’t wait for the audience’s breath to fill my sails after all. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You talk a great deal of the length of this passage, my dear. It is a mere nothing after all; and not the least draught from the stairs.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I should be mad that he’s wasting water—after all, we still have all the same restrictions as before. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“So, you don’t mind the hair after all?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe it proved I had a little bit of machismo in me after all. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Dussel complained to Mother that he was being treated like a leper, that no one was friendly to him and that, after all, he hadn’t done anything to deserve it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After Simmon took me to sign up for classes, I made my way to the Archives, eager to have a look around after all these years of dreaming. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Airplanes, after all, were something she knew about. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

She thought: Maybe she has changed her mind after all. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We may end up at the Ludingtons’ farm after all,” he said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an Abnegation leader, after all, and as such, one of the keepers of the truth. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

After all his hard work, after all the time he had spent underground, there was no way forward. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

"Watch it. I'm paying for your dinner, after all." An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

What could she do to him, after all? Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Isn’t it a great pity you have to be reading all about England after all they did to us, that there isn’t a history of Ireland to be had in this hospital. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to make too much of it; it was just a meal, after all. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was Rose, after all—maybe that had been her real name. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was no other reason Ugwu could think of; the skin was, after all, the tastiest part. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I knew the whole time. Rain is cleansing, after all. It reveals the truth.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it hadn’t been so bad up there in the net after all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Harry knew she was deeply interested in the Gryffindor team’s prospects; it had been she, after all, who’d suggested him as Seeker in the first place. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

"And if you feel that way about it, maybe I'd better sell it somewhere else after all." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And after all, he had somewhere to hide now, somewhere so safe no one would ever find him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the short term it would help to provide a solution to the puzzle of the Michelson-Morley experiments in that it demonstrated that light needn’t be a wave after all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had come to believe in the myth of his own authority, and after all I am an outsider. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The paddle felt loose and weak, but he didn’t have to push against the current, after all. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even after all my classmates’ fish had gone to the great fishbowl in the sky, Goldie was still alive. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, after all, she would not hate it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Seeing her next to the Grand Elder, the madwoman realized with a start that after all these years, Sister Ignatia had never seemed to age. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I know that had to he true for all the colored boys when they came home, but I felt bad for Junior after all he had done. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave him a reproachful look and walked off without responding, but already, I suppose, I’d begun to entertain the possibility that he wasn’t, after all, making it up about Miss Lucy. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spit out the brown seed, iris after all. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easier for me to admit that to myself now, in the dark, after all that just happened. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I called them on your father’s cell phone. I never wanted one of those, but now I think I’d better get one after all. They simply cut my phone line.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Bo’s story about all his friends living together in a movie theater had just been a fantasy after all, nothing more. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mack and the boys drank the whiskey, after all they weren’t crazy, but all the talking they did was “Good luck,” and “Lookin’ at you.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna was disappointed, but he was a priest after all and this had to be his solution: Seek God. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because after all, how many untold times had his children intruded on a good moment of sex like this? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. That after all the things that had to happen to get us to meet today, something else was gonna tear us apart.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’d hung my key up after all, I thought, shaking my head. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Were white people coming after all of us? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few hours it will be morning, they will dance around the tree with their little gifts from Mother, and they will stay, they will, after all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry laughed: The strange idea that had occurred to him was, after all, ridiculous. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The show, after all, still had songs and Muppets and bright colors and action and all the things that make Sesame Street so wonderful. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t tell whether Estha recognized him after all those years or not. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wandering through empty halls and ransacked offices, I tried to imagine what home would feel like, if after all this I chose to go back. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was, after all, just another great ape. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

And the world being after all full of strange creatures beyond count, these little people seemed of very little importance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Near East became the cradle of civilization: to be civilized, after all, means to live as a citizen, a town dweller. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside her the huntress was relaxed and calm, encouraging her without treating her like a child, and Ash found that it wasn’t so difficult to talk to her, after all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was Silvertongue, after all, who had brought him here. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe this isn’t so bad after all,” she said. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entranced again by Lawrence’s “thrilling” optimism, as he described it to Weaver, Fosdick came away from the meeting anxious that the Rad Lab might not need the foundation’s funds after all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But then he spoke after all, or rather laughed, and reality snapped back. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a boat store after all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing was expected of her, she was a child after all in their eyes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

What if Bertha hadn’t been able to make things right for me, after all? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And his father’s smile made him feel as if he might be worth something after all—until he remembered he was out-loud lying. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I began to feel a sense of relief: Maybe they really would help us, after all. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“How lovely,” breathed Mercy, her voice as arresting as her eyes, “to see you after all these years, Katherine!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Where else, after all, did the tide set a pale crab on your toe? Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She was fair game and perhaps she'd find me black enough, after all. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a seed, after all, and they are by definition the beginning of something. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Despite what I’d said to Aech, knowing that I was about to meet him in person after all these years made me more nervous than I wanted to admit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We did not, after all, save the idyll. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, a point upon which our enemies would attack us violently. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe his idea was going to work after all. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like there was hope after all. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Terryl herself, after all, had gone after a bishop years ago. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Well I was thinking so hard about going up to Tom Warrups’ and finally seeing Sam after all this time that I kept forgetting it was a secret. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she hadn’t lost out on everything, after all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And I’m afraid I am becoming something that the old Jenna Fox never was and maybe ten percent isn’t enough after all. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he was close by, after all, looking for him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easier to remember and appreciate something, after all, if you discuss it for two hours with your best friends. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been sitting on the wagon seat, taken from a ’23 Chrysler that wrecked near Paraje, and after all those years the springs poked through the faded mouse-fur fabric like devil claws. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the prerogative of moles, after all, which only certain American lifetimes can teach. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew Mom better than I did, after all. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He is bound to be nervous, after all, and excited, playing a fast-moving game under the glare of television lights. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

That night in my diary I wrote to God: Maybe going to Central High isn’t such a good idea after all. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought he would be so happy I had finally played for him after all the times he had asked me, but I saw he had tears in his eyes. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even after all of these years with the three of them and their cold behavior toward me, I could not understand why they acted like that toward me and now Eliza. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

As these thoughts ran through my mind, I decided that the classroom wasn’t such a bad place after all. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I am no good after all. There is not enough of the breed of Bandobras the Bullroarer in me: these howls freeze my blood. I don’t ever remember feeling so wretched.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You have been doing so well, after all. I thought you might want a little hint, to help you with the rest of your treasure hunt.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Guess the patrols didn’t take care of her after all. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"I'm grateful, my prince," he said, but Bran saw pity in his pale blue eyes, mingled perhaps with a little gladness that the cripple was, after all, not his son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe his day would be good after all. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She was used, after all, to reading books with pages missing, fallen off while passing through too many hands. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Adulthood, after all, already loomed, where she would have to make grimmer and grimmer decisions. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then came the possibility of Ralph’s finishing his Ph.D. after all. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or hide your book in its birthday suit—after all, sometimes no disguise is the best disguise of all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There’s maybe seven buildings total in Farbranch, smaller than Prentisstown and just buildings after all but somehow so different, too, it feels like I’ve wandered right off New World into some whole other place altogether. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Before I could ask her to clarify her puzzle—after all, my sisters were all right here with me—I heard Juanita’s voice, then Delia and Velia calling out for me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If, after all, he was an outlier, someone with a predisposition to dis-traction, it would be worth knowing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was not, after all, so easy to die. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I decide I’ve never had such a good time before in my life, but then I feel guilty for thinking something like that, after all of the good times I’d spent with my mother. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe the story wasn’t made up after all. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe a showdown could be averted, after all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after all the explanations, she still felt responsible for the whole mess, especially for what was happening to Mr. Larson. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

And anyway, if I’d never started choosing, how would I ever have got close again to Ruth and Tommy after all those years? Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, fifty years since Mommy had been there, and most of the old-timers had gone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still scared, but it was somehow comforting to think that maybe stage fright was a trait I’d inherited from Dad; I wasn’t just some foundling, after all. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature she had seen in the Englishman’s house wasn’t a moving picture after all. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men were not going to be saved after all. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, a job that promised to exercise my talent for public speaking, and if the pay was anything at all it would be more than I had now. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he was so near, he wondered whether he wanted to see after all. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her great-aunt had already warned her away from interacting with the spirits, after all, and the incident on the trolley had been a harsh lesson besides. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But if wild populations with variations in genotype keep interbreeding, Dobzhansky knew, a new species would never be formed: a species, after all, is fundamentally defined by its inability to interbreed with another. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I was wondering why no one was coming after us, and I got worried, knowing what it would do to her...and, well, I guess you have some common sense after all.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe there is something, after all, to the way some people want to remain—each to its own kind. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Why did she find herself here now, after all the passion, all the hard work, she’d put in? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was going to be a good day-before-my-birthday after all. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, but now that were here—” “Just wait on the shore. If anything happens to me ... Well, maybe Hades will get his wish, and you’ll be the child of the prophecy after all.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’d miss me, after all, when she went off to Georgia. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But that didn’t make sense—after all, if they took the Yellows out of Thurmond, why wouldn’t they have taken them from all the camps? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Was Abuela right about something bad happening to him after all? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There were still two and a half months to go until he needed to know what all the screechy wailing meant, after all. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I am, after all, her lining-up partner, and she wants me to be marveled at. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was not the first girl to spend her time reading and dreaming in the attic, after all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you think so? Oh, I’ll be a lamb, if I can only have that lovely ring! It’s ever so much prettier than Kitty Bryant’s. I do like Aunt March after all.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, we have to walk about a million miles through the rain to get to the school, but I guess those cowboy hats are good for something after all. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Rockets get too hot for solder, looks like. It’s going to take a weld after all.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Although I am rather hungry, and you have, after all, just sold a memento of my childhood for thirty pieces of silver, so to speak.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And not even remotely nice. To say that to me after all I’ve been through.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Their job, after all, was to care for and clean up the patients. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It was suppertime, and the family was gathered around the kitchen table, when Shawn said he guessed he’d marry Emily after all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In these at last, and after all the bitter setbacks of discipline, he was allowed to fight battles which were nearly rol ones, against his brother and cousins. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like Mrs. Larkin wasn’t going to make it after all, but then the door burst open and Mrs. Larkin came in, wagging her finger. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Black Cat clue had led them somewhere after all, but what if this number was now a dead end? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe this isn’t the best idea after all.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Kiowa, after all, had been a close friend, and for years I’ve avoided thinking about his death and my own complicity in it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was, after all, the Prime Minister and did not appreciate being made to feel like an ignorant schoolboy. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

What if, after all this fuss, we were just the best of the worst? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“So your mother did leave after all,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to Calder that there could be hidden information here—after all, codes involved repetition, and the same objects appeared again and again in Vermeer’s work. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t make all their taps but they made a lot and I thought they might not be scrubs after all. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She paused, and her face looked as though she still couldn’t believe it after all these years. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I thought of poor Mr. Freeman, and the guilt which lined my heart, even after all those years, was a nagging passenger in my mind. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about your family? They must be still around—after all, they have immunity from gleaning as long as you’re alive.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But if there was someone who waren’t enthusiastic ’bout his studies more than me it was Cooter Bixby, so for him to be this riled up maybe it was gonna be something after all! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Four days after all girls’ schools were shut down, Fazlullah’s men destroyed five more schools. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Happy after all these years to discover someone interested in his work, the priest had no misgivings about revealing his vast knowledge. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because, after all, as our dearest Lucinda knew only too well...the show must go on!” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

During those months of gradual discovery, the chimps very slowly began to realize that I was not so frightening after all. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The moon, after all, still smiles from time to time, and the world still spins like a dancer through the skies. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And if someone else can see them too...then maybe I’m not so alone after all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I was appalled. I couldn’t believe I had put us in danger after all, put myself in your power — you of all people. As if I needed another motive to kill you.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

So I wasn’t that wrong about the girdle, after all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all—plus c’est la meme chose, plus ga change. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And gradually she became aware that she wasn’t dead after all and that Baba Joseph wasn’t her grandfather. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Love is love, after all, whether you’re Greek or Roman. This civil war won’t affect me as much as it will the others.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Imagine her saying that after all we did for her,” he said, then noticed me staring at him, and said in a kind of squirmy way, “What?” and then, more squirmily, “What?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Another time, sleeping in different quarters in Cange—the patriarch of the place was, after all, a priest—Ophelia was determined to rise early in the morning, ahead of Paul. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But it was Saturday, after all—our usual morning to have coffee together—and I knew I'd have to get it over with and talk to Dad sooner rather than later. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I can see it’s you, Papa. Can’t you even give your boy one night off? It is our honeymoon after all.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A rush of hope goes through me that my purse is not lost after all. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew it was unfair to think of the man that way—he didn’t, after all, know him very well. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I still wear them after all of these years, for my grandmother.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I do have the dragons, after all, and keeping them safe is a big responsibility. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She looked pained — she’d spent her life setting up this “creepy place,” after all. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if, after all, it wouldn’t be better to ask his father’s advice, but he decided against that almost immediately and as firmly as he had rejected the idea that afternoon. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the letter^ written on rice paper, fast fading after all these years, as brittle as old leaves in winter. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And hearing the cracks of his stout fan and the cries of the pupils, the neighbors said, “It is a worthy old teacher, after all.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I wasn’t so bad at school after all. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You ended up giving her the seat after all,” Rishi said. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were facing the wrong way, after all, and it was dark and wet, and they were busy stamping the ground and staring gloomily and longingly at the lights of the village. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t completely dark, after all—gauzy light glowed from around a turn in the passage ahead. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Look at what you have become after all these years, Songbird.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Who would have believed that our entire educational system was wrong after all? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was at White Plains after all, but the Rebels had it under siege. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was turning out to be a very interesting day after all. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Marshall, after all, was well aware of Darrach’s reputation for revealing the most intimate details of the lives of his subjects. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, after all those years, he felt nothing for them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My Tris should look pale and small—she is pale and small, after all—but instead the room is full of her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Papas title was omelora, after all, The One Who Does for the Community. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry had been wearing his Star of David necklace after all. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Part of me wants to call him on the charade and put some direct questions to him, especially after all he’s revealed tonight. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I did manage to make her spontaneously combust after all. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“My goodness, it still smells like her, doesn’t it? Your grandma. How is that possible after all these years?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She is, after all, a young woman, and anywhere else this would be an everyday scene. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was, after all, an old man, and I, though slow to sprout, was fleet of foot. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't know, after all, that Prosper and his friends had found refuge with Ida Spavento. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is not an animal after all—it is a company, an assemblage. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion was surprised at how desolate it made him feel to say it, even after all these years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe I hadn’t been so foolish, after all. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It did not feel so strange after all, this animal beneath her, ready to spring through the forest. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white minister stated at a union meeting, “This riot has come to us as a shock after all our idealism.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She could never have made it like a real one—and after all those weeks of planning the very thought of it made her sick. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to go to Chicago after all?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As he turned to walk away, dragging his broom behind him, he mumbled that he guessed the Epsom salts hadn’t worked after all. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many children read the newspaper, after all? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone that old, after all, had to have a little bit of wisdom. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I wondered if maybe I should’ve sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father’s Day after all. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They were, after all, what the humans had used in the nursery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t me, I swear,” he said, though as he stood there, he sized the boy up and realized he shouldn’t be so terrified after all. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Billy, after all, had contemplated torture and hideous wounds at the beginning and the end of nearly every day of his childhood. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A show without an audience is nothing, after all. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He did save my life by taking on Cato after all. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He had seen my ship, after all, the little lander that had brought me down on planet; he had free access along with anyone else to the engineers’ reports on the ship and the ansible. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

By this time there were already suspicions that these atoms were not, after all, indivisible. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, it occurred to Jinny that in all the commotion, she hadn’t helped Ess down the boulders, that she had run and stranded the girl behind after all that. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it does, after all, go even wider than sex...” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even Alec and Lana were chuckling, which made Mark think maybe it was going to be a perfect day after all. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was not, of course, unknown: Christianity, after all, was named after Christ. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know that it matters after all. One has to think of the children some time or other, the sooner the better.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are—after all this time, from Zundert to now, through all their ups and downs, their divergent and convergent paths—bound together, brothers, friends. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Reaching the top of Everest is supposed to trigger a surge of intense elation; against long odds, after all, I had just attained a goal I’d coveted since childhood. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the bombs rain down on the roof, I bury my face in my pillow, looking up again at a brief clip of me at the end, after all the victims are dead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t like this quiet girl with the haunted eyes, and I’m starting to think that maybe I didn’t do her a favor after all. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Near midnight, after all the lights in the houses facing the park were extinguished and Fiona had long gone home, Martin brought food. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As I got closer, I thought maybe she wasn’t laughing after all. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She dutifully wrote down all the names Mrs. Coulter suggested, spelling them atrociously and then crossing them out when Mrs. Coulter decided against them after all. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“We can call the Humble Oil people back. Tell them we want a casket after all,” she said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The light was from a different fire after all; he’d been fooled because this new blaze was almost directly behind the still-flickering remnants of the Saturday October 7 fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I tapped on her window, she didn’t start, or even look surprised to see me after all that time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isn’t it ridiculous, after all, to think that a son could forgive his father for beating the drum that sent him to his death? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

If he was not a spy, if he was indeed Hiram Wallace, why had he come back after all these years to an island where he was hardly remembered except with contempt? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her swallow—which showed she wasn't so sure of herself, after all. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“If you find the computer* you will find Jeanine. I assume you know a few ways to coerce her into doing what you want. She is not, after all, accustomed to pain,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, a job that promised to exercise my talent for public speaking, and if the pay was anything at all it would be more than I had now. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this stage is not the same after all, because of the three wooden posts that stand on it, with the loops of rope. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, after all that, he wants to go with me to the march. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Of course I still love my grandma even after all the awful stuff she did to me, which is scary that you can love someone who is not nice. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after all that, Jude’s still not home! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

If he failed and everyone laughed, Ryan might not give back the motorcycle after all. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The young man, after all, had headed straight for her, offering his help. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, after all, George said “babies,” didn’t he? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was going to be a football game after all, a mean, relentless, thudding fight in the gray and the rain. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, we sat in the car in the darkness, trying to comprehend what could not be comprehended even after all these years. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Thomas asked, stalling for time while he tried to decide if he should go up after all. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I turned out to be useful after all. What a terrible surprise.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“They have me to guide them, after all, and I was illustrious.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

While proud of Ishtar, who made it to the prom after all, Whitiker is torn between making a big deal of graduation and keeping it in perspective. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This is not a mistake after all, is it? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This was her house, after all, not Mia’s; as the landlord, she had the right. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I must be too excited to see something happening after all those hours, because I plain forget I’m supposed to be hiding. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I guess he doesn’t need to use the table saw after all. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You think I don’t know you after all this time? You got a look that says you don’t want to be here.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There never had been any Catholics on Rass, and the end of all things was, after all, almost unimaginable, and therefore had far less power to shake one’s core. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he’s going to fall in love with me after all? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For a terrifying moment, Frank imagined they’d all be crushed under tons of earth—a disappointing way to die, after all they’d been through. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He feels defensive; after all his efforts, he feels protective of the three empty rooms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had decided to stay here in the city, after all. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

People trespassed in unfinished buildings all the time, after all. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘A dead end,’ muttered Sam; ‘and after all my climb! This can’t be the top of the tower. But what can I do now?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“So the tales of the mighty Thor are only tales. Well, even so, we will allow you to drink the horn dry on your third attempt. There cannot be much left in there, after all.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, then. We had a little auction here, after all.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How could I after all the fuss?” began May, but she did not finish, for Amy’s voice came across the hall, saying pleasantly... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not think of an argument against it; after all, McLaggen had certainly performed second-best in the trials. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But, after all, this was his job and it was just as painful to sit here and let them stare at him as it was to go in. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh no,” said the little man, “I’m the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it’s more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The term, after all, is not found in every society. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you decided to come back after all, did you?” her stepmother said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We may be about to rediscover that dying is not such a bad thing to do after all. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no way of knowing things would shift again, that I wasn’t as alone as I thought after all. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then I said, “I want to meet them. They’re my sisters, after all.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are your family, after all, and I’m sure you are fond of each other — er — very deep down.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Nazis have taken over the world after all. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t his fault Twig invited him, after all, and I knew he was just trying to be a good friend. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Nice. Maybe I don’t have to worry about you so much after all. Your folks are great, you’re at Hudson, you’re going to Yale.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, after all, she wasn’t a little girl. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nat couldn’t think of anything to say, either—not after all the stories he’d told her about the dangers of the Mediterranean. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, after all, he had exaggerated things, perhaps he had been happier. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But the lads snickered at this, and at last Wang Lung rose, feeling himself after all but a guest in his sons’ courts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’d take a saint after all to straighten such a mess out.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting beside him at last, feeling his warmth as they ate ice cream together and laughed at Lydia's efforts with a cone, Ann believed that maybe things would work out for them after all. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The girls are new to the city, and they deserve to see something nice after all the hard work.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The government of Russia under the Czars could not be bothered to investigate so trivial an event, which, after all, had occurred far away, among the backward Tungus people of Siberia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That SS officer in the muddy barrack must have been lying: Auschwitz was, after all, a convalescent home . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bo cried his eyes out even though Hornet tried to tell him that they were, after all, staying in the same city. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But still, this didn’t stop us—two lawyers, after all—from taking up the topic with hot gusto. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“This beautiful, natural spectacle gave us hope and almost a sense of triumph. There was, after all, a force in this world far superior to our oppressors. I was sure this force would ultimately prevail.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Seems like that serum did you some good after all....” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Alice and I can survive on my mountain after all. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the dampness of the desert after all the rains. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I didn't need to modify a landing strut after all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the bottle is empty, and it is his own house, after all. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This, after all, was why she left—to send money for school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She sent me to bed, but I couldn’t sleep after all that.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The panel questioned with greater depth Bryan Burkhart, about whom many locals had begun to whisper; after all, he was the last person seen with Anna before she went missing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, who wouldn’t want a nice little holiday after all the hard work he’s been putting in?” asked Fred. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And maybe it don’t hurt so much after all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Twig had decided to give it to him after all. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t write a poem after all, but poetry has helped me get my feelings out. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

‘But,’ said Sam, and tears started in his eyes, ‘I thought you were going to enjoy the Shire, too, for years and years, after all you have done.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At last, after all the other employees have sped off in the company’s eye-catching green-and-yellow cars, I am led into a tiny closet-sized room off the inner office to learn my trade via videotape. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still owed my original debt, but after all I’d been through, a four-talent debt no longer seemed terribly ominous, despite the fact that my purse was largely empty again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And Mr Harry Smith himself seemed to lose all inhibitions, for now he leaned forward and continued: 'That's what we fought Hitler for, after all. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it still was, after all these years. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"He is the King's Justice, after all. Sending other men to do his office . . . some might construe that as a grave insult." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her genius plan to get money wasn’t so genius after all. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She never spoke that way to me before, after all, my father is in prison and most of my family is in a gang. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dany felt she could trust this old, plain-faced woman with her flat nose; she had saved her from the hard hands of her rapers, after all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I taxed every power,” Elizabeth remembered, “hoping someday to hear my father say: ‘Well, a girl is as good as a boy, after all.’ Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Aunt Goldie had had her time with Aunt Florentine early that morning, and here was my chance to say good-bye, after all. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m setting the record straight about my, er, vitality this afternoon, but after all you’ve been through I wanted you to hear the news directly from me first.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She is not to be queen after all. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I pacified myself about his whiteness by saying that after all he had been dead so long it couldn’t matter to anyone any more. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after dinner we turned the lights off and got into bed, hoping that the day would end peacefully after all. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you already know it? You are a clever man, after all, Severus. You have been a good and faithful servant, and I regret what must happen.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was like their tears, or my lack of them, were proof: proof that you’d been right when you left me, that I’d never deserved you after all. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His sudden return had been providential after all. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But if I can’t laugh, maybe I’m not so fine after all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The first chance she got, after all that mess in the House of Hades, she’d marched into Leo’s cabin and said, ‘Spill.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

You tug at it, pull it down, like maybe you have decided you actually want to cover your knees after all. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“So, Mr. Samowitz is teaching you some arithmetic after all. Don’t drop any.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Point System isn’t her idea, after all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The fact that there’s running water anywhere gives me hope that things might not be so bad after all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ashima still dreams of the letter at times, discovering it after all these years in the mailbox on Pemberton Road, opening it up only to find it blank. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there’s a version of my life where I’m sick after all. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yes,’ he said, ‘I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And after all he never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning; but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

For where else, after all, could I go? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It might be the girl, or he might have been followed after all. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She was determined that their minds be kept alert; they were Biafra’s future, after all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The history of race relations in Durham was, after all, a long line of such shams extending back for a century. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

None of it was going to happen after all. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the sudden hot, sunny day after all those rainy weeks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And then I knew she wasn’t the one he was pointing to, after all. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later we come to the wash, and I breathe a secret sigh of relief, because it means this was the right dirt road after all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And after all this time I had just discovered Jack's missing eye. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about ten minutes, however, he decided that a breath of air would not perhaps be a bad thing, after all. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

For after all he was only walking and going nowhere. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know yet. But somewhere splendid. I’ll look after all that.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m setting the record straight about my, er, vitality this afternoon, but after all you’ve been through I wanted you to hear the news directly from me first.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wish I could tell you that after all that, everything was like a sweet "happily ever after." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Next year geologists may decide the ice-free corridor was passable, after all. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you’ll be of use after all. I’ve called ahead to Drake and told them that you are dis missed from further training. You were almost done with your coursework anyway.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

This was Vietnam, after all, and Mary Anne Bell was an attractive girl. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four of the 17 kids they talked to guessed penguin after the first clue, six more guessed it after the second clue and four after all three clues. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Wilkins returned from vacation, he expected Franklin to join him as his junior assistant; DNA had, after all, always been his project. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Another unlikely gift from the Valentine farm after all her prisons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Not such a brand-new, hopeful day after all. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was from the Bronx, after all, maybe these country jokers were intimidated. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed that some part of what he had said was true, after all. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was agreed that the prisons would get about half of the loan after all. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Two minutes by my watch. He won’t have to waste the evening after all.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I admired the graceful gold-and-pink rose pattern on the translucent bone china and figured that some of the trappings of civilization weren’t so bad after all. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I feel a little bit bad that I upset her after all she's done for me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Why would someone do this to others after all the hell that happened to the world? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but it’s barely enough time to prepare. I’m so excited for him. He deserves this after all the hard work.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Unless, Father has sent word that he’s safe after all. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But then I do not mean to imply anything derogatory about Mr Farraday; he is, after all, an American gentleman and his ways are often very different. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that the Pipeworks was no use after all to a person who wanted to save the city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pool thing seemed like a good idea at the time—after all, in a time of drought, a pool is an extravagance. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I guess, I guess I wasn’t thinking after all,” she stammered. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It may be that the day of useful nuclear energy is not so far distant after all,” he wrote to his fellow cyclotron builder Alexander Allen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Later, a month before the fall semester was to begin, Daddy pretended to have changed his mind and told Wendell he could attend after all. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was, after all, nothing I could do now. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, the thought of her made Ekon’s blood boil; last night’s disaster had been, after all, her fault. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There’s a whole week left before school starts, after all. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Will he do the proper thing and become a doctor after all? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

External reality has a way of being not so external after all. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is turning out to be an interesting little town after all, isn’t it, Roy?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, perhaps it wasn’t so surprising — after all, he had only found out that Sirius was his godfather two months ago. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was the boy, it must be, and Mr. Curtain had just begun to suspect that George was an unfit Messenger after all—that in fact he might be untrustworthy—when the session improved. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

That made me a better Indian, after all. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She smiled and beckoned so sweetly to Jane and Michael that they were ashamed of having been frightened of her, and felt that she must be very nice after all. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Their dad was there, after all, and they knew they were safe. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And who said, after all, that the killer had to be a man? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, I kept on dreaming; after all, what harm could that do me? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dakari is, after all, attractive and popular; he has lots of friends. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She did not think she had the courage, after all her initial certainty and two or three days of patient, kindly interviewing, to withdraw her evidence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The noise of the market felt odd in Hazel’s ears after all that quiet. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We are Sinclairs, after all, and Sinclairs do not behave like I was behaving. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I was coming from Chicago, after all, where winter stretched through April, where it was normal to keep a snow shovel stashed in the trunk of your car. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They are mindless particles, after all, and not even themselves alive. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then the scent of caramel wafts by as he walks, and Bailey finds he is not particularly hungry after all. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Ah! I truly am a lucky one after all,” the stonecutter said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The crew of the Selaesori Qhoran had been pleased enough when he first came on board; a dwarf was good luck, after all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Billy,” she said, “I don’t approve of this hunting, but it looks like I can’t say no; not after all you’ve been through, getting your dogs, and all that training.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not an easy day after all. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was easy to forgive: after all, it was the End of the World. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I stood before it for several seconds wondering whether the road wouldn’t be a better idea after all. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Should I ask Gregory to give this one to someone else after all? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was glad not to be alone just now after all. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Phil jumped into the conversation to give me a hard time about it—he claimed that he liked it, after all—and the next morning, I found this postcard taped to my locker. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“You got nerve coming here, you little punk. I thought the police—” “He’s not a fugitive after all,” my mom interjected. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not care that my foolish belly is growing lazy after all these days of little to do. It must be fed. I will not die because it does not wish to work.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“The explosion,” I say, trying to hide my smile because after all these months of ignoring me, she’s sucking up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This was just a JV volleyball game, after all. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Something about her does remind me of her father after all. See her lips tighten? And that look! Oh yes, anyone can see they’re related." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Though Adams was vaguely aware of these machinations, he gave them little attention; after all, he never paid much heed to his cabinet anyway. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“And after all, Remus, young and whole men do not necessarily remain so.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There was no larder for his store of mash, after all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had, after all, rejected the Sturm und Drang of Du Bois for the accommodationism of Booker T. Washington. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to get there and not be fresh, especially after all that ironing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They may not be worth much, but, after all, they’re property and portable. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“There were far more factionless than we ever anticipated. It’s difficult to get an accurate population count on a scattered population, after all.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They were not so far from the fiery furnace after all, and my best friend might have been one of them. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe taking my legs off wasn’t that much of a big deal after all. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He had come to find her, after all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

If they had not gone to London, after all, or if Mrs Boland and Hooper came out in search of him, they would first go down into the village. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He was a tiger hunter, after all, wasn’t he? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Leo didn’t hate many people, but after all these years, Aunt Rosa’s face made him boil with resentment. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was thirsty again, and hungry too, because he’d last eaten in another world, after all. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the F been a mistake, after all? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how to say it after all. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe my mother had cooed over me after all. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you tell me after all these years!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I almost say, “I’m sorry, can I have it after all?” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the rumors of vast underground conspiracies were true after all—perhaps the Brotherhood really existed! 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Even after all this, I still always feel like I want to know more of you. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a tree, after all. Just a tree.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Your Natasha is getting deported tonight after all. I couldn’t stop it from happening. The judge wouldn’t overturn the Voluntary Removal.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When they became tired enough or uncomfortable enough, they would eventually take seats beside us and soon see that it was not so poisonous after all. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I whip across the street to take the woods down the hill to CSA after all, because I’m too embarrassed to pass the new kid. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I stay to finish my last four pancakes; twice I have to drop to the floor;—after all, it means four pancakes more, and they are my favourite dish. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nitrogen mustard, after all, is not sprayed upon whole populations from the air; its use is in the hands of experimental biologists or of physicians who use it in cancer therapy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Theo tells Jo that he will manage “no matter what may happen, after all, I have you to live for; I’ll not be alone as long as I have my wife & my little boy.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ordinary crime, after all, preys on the weak—on little old ladies rather than on husky athletes—and criminals often make willing and able executioners of defenseless people. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You must find your own. You could look in the field of the oxen for it. Nice big maggots in the ox dung, after all. Bring whatever you want from there.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Looks like we might see some snow after all,” he tells me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was right, after all, and anyway her tone left no room for discussion. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So I guess there was no Great Manifesto after all, even though you made me believe there was. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The fingers, Tyrion called them; they were men of the Fiery Hand, after all, and there were five of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This was supposed to be the time when I finally got to meet him after all these years, and I was hoping we could spend the day together. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Then maybe it is my foot after all,” said Major Metcalf. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And then the word came down that Roy and Dale didn’t have time to do two shows after all, so they were cutting ours. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I can help you after all. I will call Sandy back, recommend someone else.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But then again, when I think about it, there’s a sense in which that picture of us on that first day, huddled together in front of the farmhouse, isn’t so incongruous after all. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consuela pressed a button, and a door slid open to show a scene so unexpected, Matt wondered whether he was dreaming after all. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little canal rat had managed to make it to the Ice Court after all. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The thought would come that this was then a dead man that I hauled across the hills, and that my luck and his life had gone to waste after all. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Water Monster was sure to still be angry with humans after all these years. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was, after all, medical director of Zanmi Lasante, and thus had the authority to make changes to the official policy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she was bitter because of what they had done to her in the end, after all the years she had helped them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘There was an orc with a whip, and then it turns into Sam! Then I wasn’t dreaming after all when I heard that singing down below, and I tried to answer? Was it you?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He tried to take it from the wall; it was his now, after all, Sirius had left him everything, but it would not budge. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, then maybe I’m not her, after all. Jenna Fox is a common name.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I was just a girl, after all, so how could I possibly survive? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to find that I really did like the band after all, once I got past the blaring noise. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t stone after all, but a clever imitation.The door revealed a dark passage going down into the earth. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of my birthday, Saturday, I felt relieved when Minnijean called to say she couldn’t come after all because she had a family event that day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly began to think he might not really be mad after all. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, I certainly expect you to win your first match after all this hard work!” said Slughorn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Surely the men or the man could be found even after all these years, and they would know well how to punish him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were, after all, Mrs. Henderson’s California grandchildren, and had been away on a glamorous trip way up North to the fabulous St. Louis. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good argument: Perhaps her uncle didn’t have the right to dispose of her after all. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t spend the last weeks of school with the friends she’d always had, so maybe she would spend them with me after all. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I did not take it as evidence that Catholics could, after all, participate fully in American public life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess there’s going to be something doing after all.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“He says he’s not going to let her die on him, not after all the money he’s put into her.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Even if she had been able to enter college, it wouldn’t have worked out because she was put on the day shift after all. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was to die, after all, in a Mexican dirt yard. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faerie, after all, is not one land, one principality or dominion. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Black Cat clue had led them somewhere after all, but what if this number was now a dead end? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have to say anything—he was, after all, a scythe, above the law in every way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Fina and I are not alone in the graveyard after all. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had known my parents might be dead—there were the rumors, after all, about where people went when they were taken. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been impolite not to have known something of them when I had listened to such a splendid explanation of their causes which were, after all, it seemed, misunderstandings. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I would become a circus mouse after all. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Like maybe I wasn’t so smart after all. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Elinor was looking at his neck as anxiously as if she feared Basta’s knife may have left its mark there after all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe I didn’t need my leather jacket after all. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was paying for his car, after all. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Because, after all, you can’t work for the greater good unless you have all of your own ducks in a row first. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was infuriating to discover the reason for all these terrible disasters and not to be able to tell the public, almost worse than it being the government’s fault after all. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A bit of sweetness after all the bitterness. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ever the soldier—even after all these years—the man had a plan, and he needed help. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

O’Dell’s father thought it was pretty amazing the rockets had flown at all and, after all, no harm had been done. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, after all had closed their eyes to sleep, Coyote snuck away from his companions. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We had no choice but to follow—she was carrying our protection, after all—and a moment later bullets were clanging against the door and chipping at the rocks around our feet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Like I could deny him after all that he had done for me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At ten, Sissy was as fully developed as a woman of thirty and all the boys were after Sissy and Sissy was after all the boys. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess the words popped out because he was so pleased to see how good he looked after all these years. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And after all those years we spent growing up together. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her back still itched, even after napping on the newspapers, and she was beginning to want some prickly-heat powder after all. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Czechs couldn’t share much—there was a war on, after all, and food was hard to come by. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had been looking for two weeks, after all, but as they only had odd moments between lessons it wasn’t surprising they’d found nothing. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The solution was, after all, really a physical one: producing Mr. Reilly in the abundant flesh. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walls didn’t just keep things out, after all. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could get a ride after all. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

So Jesus isn’t the only one after all. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He realized that tonight would not be the night of her death after all. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had watched her, after all, mourn her husband’s death and it had been for her in part the discovery that grief could attach itself with permanence—something Ishmael had already discovered. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed she’d figured out how to use those feet, after all. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether after all there was a microphone hidden somewhere near. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It feels nice to hang out with Russ—especially after all that’s happened. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa confessed that maybe it hadn’t been an Indian cemetery after all; maybe someone had made up that story. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cornell, after all, had come within four-tenths of a second of beating California the year before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So there is magic beyond the Wall after all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My goodness, she is a bad nut after all,” said Mr. Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you got some sense after all,” he said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The waiter turned instinctively to Butler, who was after all, the adult. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Lazlo reeled with the horror of it all, and with the incredible feeling that after all his own youth had been merciful. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

No one was going to win or lose after all. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Little coward came in the aftermath, after all the work was done,” Uriah says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was running away after all, but she was not alone. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were marched into the factory, which wasn’t a factory after all. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, I told myself, it's in your voice, after all. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he’s lucky, maybe he’ll still get that A and go to Disney after all. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It felt firm and warm, and for the first time in a long while Violet felt as if her life and the lives of her siblings might turn out well after all. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean. But you're just a man, after all...” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

You would think that after all the hours I’d spent with Gale—watching him talk and laugh and frown—that I would know all there was to know about his lips. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bingley expressed great pleasure in the certainty of seeing Elizabeth again, having still a great deal to say to her, and many enquiries to make after all their Hertfordshire friends. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe old Mary and her herbs weren’t such a bad idea after all—if I could be sure of catching her in one of her saner moments. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Coalwood was, after all, a place for work above all else: hard, bruising, filthy, and sometimes deadly work. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She did not want to leave this place, after all. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And the hunters who went there sometimes wondered in private if maybe the white farmer was right after all. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was all things she’d heard before, after all; Mama was repeating it because she was nervous. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Really. Especially after all you had been through at the airport. You want to talk about it?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I thought of Rain and shuddered, even after all these years. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They were, after all, a city of the best ghosts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

This vixen wasn’t such a bad creature after all. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t speak for so long that I begin to question if I have spoken after all. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This country was built on immigrants, after all. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And some folks in Cedar started to question whether the mountain was really going to erupt after all. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t a grilled cheese sandwich, after all. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are unaccustomed, after all these months, to being just the four of them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Downstream from where they merge, they are both dead—I have looked many times, thinking that maybe, after all this time, the water in Burden Creek might be all right again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is not, after all, where you live. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents’ grandfather clock still ticked away after all these years with a maniacal endurance. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, sir—” the spy chuckled, teeth chattering—“you see, I was able to find you after all.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she was going to be generous after all, hold out her hand and wish me luck, give me encouragement and tell me that everything was going to be all right. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you not so dumb after all,” he said to me after the wedding ceremony. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it turned out she didn't need him so badly after all. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

This is a South Asian cooking club, after all. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The basic theory underlying this strategy is that white Americans will abandon discriminatory practices if and when it becomes apparent that black people aren’t inferior after all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, his crop as well as mine that needed cultivating. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was thinking that he wasn’t alone in the world after all. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

And a friend of my mother’s from Sacramento—Do we remember her after all these years?—died of cancer just last week. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us be off. That baby isn’t going to sacrifice itself, after all.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Those trees were almost as old as the world, after all. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“How can you say such a thing after all this warrior is trying to do for us?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But who could have known about it—after all these years? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She explained that we were growing up, that we needed to be with our parents, that Uncle Willie was, after all, crippled, that she was getting old. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I confess,” Marco says, “I don’t fully understand the point, even after all this time.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Fuller’s boss, Robert Foust, backed the decision to bring in organization vehicles, reasoning that the primary purpose of Operation Breakthrough was, after all, to help neighborhood councils. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Diary, after all these years, you ever not want to be written in? Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I sure didn’t want her stopping by wondering if she’d done the right thing after all, and was everything unplugged and the stove turned off. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sesame Street, after all, was a product of the 1960s, and in the intervening three decades major strides had been made in understanding how children’s minds work. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That after all, she’d been shallow enough to pick Trip, of all people. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe this was the best way to share my secret project with her after all. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He dreamed that Lydia announced she was staying and not abandoning him after all. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

How could it be possible that after all that, Charlie was dead and Jenny Flick was still alive? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He is doing what he can, after all, to ensure that peace will continue to prevail in Europe.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

So my matchmaking had paid off, after all. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He gave orders that a damask table-cloth should be draped over the ping-pong table, and in the end it looked really quite elegant after all. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have done some form of camouflage after all. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other studies suggest that threads in the eye can indicate personality tendencies, and that maybe eyes are a kind of window to the soul after all. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they’d want to torture him for secrets or something—after all, he lived with one of the Rebel leaders and might know what their plans were or whether they had ammunition stored someplace. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this surgery wasn’t the worst thing after all. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It now appears that he may have gotten things right after all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There had never really been a place for her, after all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this place won’t be so bad after all, Thomas thought. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“He had, after all, no experience in directing a large group of people,” said the German-born physicist Hans Bethe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had not begun to rain, after all: The tent had been doused in kerosene. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe someday, after all this, after we find a new life, a new home, with plenty of water and food, then I could grow up and have full rosy cheeks and a soft round belly. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At the same time, he says, the cocktail party effect shows the limitations of attention; after all, you can’t pay attention to two conversations at once. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She wanted to hate him for refusing to invite her; she was his Champion, after all! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe going to America was just a dream that would fizzle away; after all, who was I to think that I could go to America? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a float plane and it would land on the water and come across the lake and the pilot would be amazed that he was alive after all these days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls in Shaker, she was sure, had abortions now and then—they were teenagers after all—but of course it was all kept very quiet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I might have let him sell you after all. Your uncle Pyce would have paid a fortune.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well, it is so nice to see them shaking down together, after all,’ said Mr Joseph Hooper to Mrs Kingshaw, a little later, after the boys had left the room. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I had found my mountain of gold, after all, and it had not been nuggets but people who had made it up: people like the Company and the Whidaws. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants—God, after all this time ignoring it, he wants it again, now, right now. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was, after all, the boy who had defied Dana Matherson and survived. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe it’s not the evil peer pressure my parents worry about after all. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And, after all, was not Jan a Red? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Save your silverware,” he said, "it wasn’t a caravan after all.” Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

From her voice I could tell she was not smiling, even after all that laughter. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think you’ll be able to find him after all this time? He’s probably”—she thought about it—“nearly twenty years old by now. Long since on his own.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He patted a USB stick in his pocket, wondering if what he had planned was a good idea after all. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was surprised by how clumsy and self-conscious she was, after all she had learned and seen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I also don’t think Papa is Vishnu after all. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They came boiling out between her lips, and they weren’t demons after all, but moths. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It looked like he wasn’t done keeping secrets after all. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She was as mad as they come, after all. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We had made a deal with Styx, after all. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some of us, after all, are very good at expressing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are, after all, apprentice to an officer,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I kept going to see him in the fading hope that he’d turn out to be a real spy and I could have a medal after all. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many blows landed upon me that I wondered if I were not the only blindfolded fighter in the ring, or if the man called Jackson hadn't succeeded in getting me after all. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess Aunt Heidi didn’t get rid of all her tears after all, not in therapy or anywhere else. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe he has a few answers after all? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I started to think maybe she wasn’t so drunk after all. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Lost in thought, Reynie had lingered after all the others had filed out, and now he found himself alone with the Sender himself. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought something vast would be nice after all the talk of confined spaces,” Marco says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The other man was not, after all, much different from her husband. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see this may turn out to be enjoyable after all,” he said, snickering. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a party, after all, and parties were meant to be enjoyed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe he will give up smoking after all. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a very long day, after all, and she wanted to feel a little less alone in the world. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You are enticing me to admit that, after all, it is mine? But indeed, M. Poirot, it isn’t.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was where it had started, after all... The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But after all the usual things, I run out of things to say. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

This was my parents’ suffocating world, after all. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m a recorder. I’m just here for the story. The story’s the important thing, after all.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Suppose I wasn’t the same as everyone else, after all? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’ll probably miss you entirely. Now, we still have a little time to kill—the bank closes at midday on Saturdays, after all. Would you like lunch?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I guess he wasn’t my uncle after all. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t that out of shape—after all, her pickax in the mines had been heavy. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe after all the years of waiting that I was finally there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was one thing that hadn’t changed in Kabul after all: The kabob was as succulent and delicious as I remembered. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know it was a risk, especially after all that’s happened. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I’ve been staying in the back, keeping to myself and listening, and trying to decide if this club is a good fit for me after all. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

To see her with another boy, acting like she didn’t know me, after I raised her, after all the nights we spent together. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I began to realize that maybe it didn’t matter where you lived in the world, that people are people everywhere, not so different after all. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I do believe it’s come again, after all these years!” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sure that this something that was so important was the alethiometer itself, because after all, Mrs. Coulter had wanted it, and what else could it be? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They chuckled about how tribal Nigerian politics was, and perhaps these chaps were not quite so ready to rule themselves after all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The really frightening thing about Olaf, she realized, was that he was very smart after all. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe she hadn’t lost out on everything, after all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I guess you guys didn’t miss me too much Friday night, after all.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I must say something, Eleanor told herself; I must show them that I am a good sport, after all; a good sport; let them think that I am ashamed of myself. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess we may be headed for a life of crime after all.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It would not hurt, after all, to walk into the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Could be. But he’s bound to be someone important, almost as important as Lord Asriel. Bound to be. We know what we’re doing is important after all.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch her walk away and think that she’s not that bad after all. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And another boy was coming, after all, with his mother, so that there would always be someone about the house to notice him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world’s preeminent democracy, after all, if large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they handed me the tiny wrapped box, I knew they’d been tricking me, that I was getting a car after all. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sharkey said that, after all, she knew the current seventh grade, for she had taught them just last year; and in her opinion, when they were very, very good, they were mediocre. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t seem such a terrible thing, after all. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

My hand comes up first, Pink as a starfish, Then plunges back Into the ice for cream sodas, A winner after all. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was, after all, not a red carpet. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Thanks to him, it turns out that I didn't die from the last bullet of the war after all. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Through them we show ourselves what we might be capable of, after all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can it be that our Mr Stevens is flesh and blood after all and cannot fully trust himself?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I laugh and it feels good after all the worrying I’ve done these past weeks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The crocus was part of her body, after all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Can you speak,” I ask, “or are you just a scarecrow after all?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

‘By goggles,’ he said, taking the jar out of the suitcase, ‘your head is not quite so full of grimesludge after all! I can see you is not born last week.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I had met kids like myself and I’d learned that I wasn’t so different after all. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"But I didn't come to open up old wounds. I came to tell you some good news, actually. It seems I may have the chance to be a player after all." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There are many kinds of magic, after all.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Plus, I like the course study better. Especially after all this”—she gestures with all four limbs. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

There was a large hidden trap-door in the floor of the barbican, which would let them into the moat after all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, he looked chipper, I supposed from being glad to see us after all this time. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And, after all, I told myself, the assignment was also proof of the committee's goodwill. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lady again after all, and more — she saw herself wildly in love. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Úrsula succeeded in imposing the command that she eat with Amaranta in the kitchen so that the outsiders would not see her, she felt more comfortable, because, after all, she was beyond all discipline. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was no telling in the fog how far the fall would be on either side, but it looked awfully steep, and we were after all a mile up in the clouds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

No Grandpop either, but he couldn't have still been asleep after all that banging. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It is only fair,” said Mordred, raising his voice so that it must be heard, “that our Round Table should have justice, after all.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strangers were small, after all—how much could they eat? Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It would certainly make Johnny look like a fool, after all his fussing. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess the Dauntless are good for something after all... Four,” she says, smiling a little. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even after all these weeks, the sight of it still gave him the shivers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I guess she did not wish me dead after all. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Okay, maybe we are not that well provisioned after all. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Did she have the wrong answers, after all? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

So he had feet, after all—invisible ones. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And, after a moment, by a low, slow whistle from Lazlo, whose discovery, it transpired, wasn’t so small after all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There were other normal kids at home to think about, after all—my brothers and sisters. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

If you can remember how that first terrific stretch feels, pleasant and painful, then you may understand how my mind felt after all these years, stretching awake on the rooftops of Tarbean. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Did you have a bad dream after all? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, after all, I spend a lot more time with Rowdy than I do with anyone else. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the fairy aspect of Castle Chariot, which the Oldest Ones—sensing the hidden knife blades after all—had thought would be tempting to the children. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z