And when gods touched something, the normal became the supernatural, the simple became the wondrous.
And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? Ah he smiled. A happiness you cannot find alone
And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too—even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.
Amazing, I thought. I worked in the news business. I covered stories where people died. I interviewed grieving family members. I even attended the funerals. I never cried. Morrie, for the suffering of...
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.
All lonely roads lead back to music. I embrace you. I forgive you. I will never leave you.
All he knows is that something stepped in front of him, blocking his way, until in time he gave up on things, he gave up studying engineering and he gave up on the idea of traveling. He sat down in hi...
Alexander Bell met the love of his life, Mabel, when she came to him as a deaf student. She was ten years his junior, but Bell fell for her hard, and over the years, her encouragement spurred him on h...
Ain't you supposed to have peace when you die?'You have peace,' the old woman said, 'when you make it with yourself.
Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale. Man likes to run from God.
A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.
A eulogy is no more than a summation of memories, and we will never forget you, because we cannot forget you, because we will miss you every day. To imagine a world without you in it is to imagine a w...
A child embarrassed by his mother, she said, is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.
The way I see it, that’s what we’re getting here, soldier. That’s what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.
When those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
This what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
The old man asked again. When I’m gone. His eyes blinked from behind his glasses. His neatly trimmed beard was gray, and he stood slightly stooped. Are you dying? I asked. Not yet, he said, grinning....
Philosophy was that death should not be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.
You've been waiting here all this time? Eddie whispered.Time, the Captain said, is not what you think. He sat down next to Eddie. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on...
You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashe...