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Small towns have their own heartbeat, no matter how many people come or go.

The hands of a clock will find their way home.

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.

So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!

It's not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.

Every loss leaves a hole in your heart.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

Lost love is still love.

The End is coming. What will you do with the time you have left?

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

No religion was superior because they all brought people closer to God

Inside all humans is the entirety of your memories, the ones you can access and the ones you cannot.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

The secret to happiness ... be satisfied and be grateful.

If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried.

As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?

Fairness does not govern life and death.

Why do you want to die?'
I shivered. For a second I couldn't breathe.
'You knew ... ?'
She gave a sad smile.
'I'm your mother.

We could look out our windows and still see your face, still hear your voice on the wind. But where do we look for you now?

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

Love does not make you a fool.

I see your face in every flower, your eyes in stars above, it's just the thought of you, the very thought of you, my love ...

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

You have to find what is good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.

Sunflowers waiting for the sunshine. Violets just waiting for dew. Bees just waiting for honey And honey, I'm just waiting for you!

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?

Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

People in grief can imagine many things. It makes them feel better. It doesn't make it real.

That's who I want to be when I grow up.

The old darkness has taken a seat alongside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commuter on a crowded bus.

We all know how to be a child.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

Please make it yesterday, when Papa came home.

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily ... and the other ends badly.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Even God couldn't be that cruel.

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

How do we say good-bye to you without saying good-bye to apiece of ourselves? Where do we look for you now?

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. Children should do it more often.

Faith is so important. It is a rope for us all to grab, up and down the mountain.

Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?

Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of ... in-between

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

Scenery without solace is meaningless.

Life has to end. Love doesn't.

you should never take anything for granted.

ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said.
"Yes."
Do they ever make more sense?
"No.

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

Forgive yourself.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Does this prove what we believe?"
"If you believe it, you don't need proof.

That's the thing when people leave us too suddenly, isn't it? We always have so many questions.

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.
And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

She says everyone you lose here, you find again there. Our family is all together. Her. My parents.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want
someone to notice she was there.

You see this face, these wrinkles? I earned every one of them

When you come to the end, that's where God begins. Many

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done.

When your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

No one gets left behind, remember?

Never tell a child that something it's too hard

Is how you stay alive.

Love. . . . You are born in it . . . you return to it.

Ends are for yesterdays, not tomorrows." Dor

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

We're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have
to do.

You really loved her?'
'I would have given my life.'
'Would you have taken it?'
'No, child,' he said.
'That is not ours to do.

My mother inhaled.

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

Don't get too attached to anything.

Talent is a piece of God's shadow. And under that shadow, human stories intersect.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

Die as a sacrifice is more worthy then a suicide

You cannot talk when you first arrive. It helps you to listen.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

God and the decision he renders is correct. God doesn't punish anyone out of the blue. God knows what He is doing.

I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

I am every age, up to my own.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

There are no random acts.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have

He tolerated it until he could tolerate it no more.