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Quotes About Afterthoughts

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
~ Euripides
It all seems pretty obvious now." "It usually is, after someone else thinks of it.
~ Robin Hobb
Who had they been, all these mothers and sisters and wives? What were they now? Moons, blank and faceless, gleaming with borrowed light, each spinning loyally around a bigger sphere. 'Invisible,' said Faith under her breath. Women and girls were so often unseen, forgotten, afterthoughts. Faith herself had used it to good effect, hiding in plain sight and living a double life. But she had been blinded by exactly the same invisibility-of-the-mind, and was only just realizing it.
~ Frances Hardinge
Isn't it amazing? The Americans have so many good afterthoughts!
~ John Irving