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"It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
"Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know."
"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudg ...more
"It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
"Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know."
"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudg ...more
This is the story of Eddie, an old man who maintains the rides on a boardwalk. After Eddie dies he meets a series of people up in Heaven, not necessarily the people he'd have hoped for like his wife or his mother, but people who had some significane in his life, even if he didn't realize it at the time. I cried and cried and cried during this book-definitely one to read at home!
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Although the definition of success in life varies drastically from one person to another, this book made me feel that the only kind of success that I want is that kind that will continue touching lives way after I am gone. Love is never ending. It defies time and even death itself.
This is highly acclaimed but I don't agree with some of Abloms ideas of life. The book is interesting and makes you think a bit about your own life.
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I liked it, but I think it was a little over rated. Good discussion book.
Jun 03, 2008
lionlady
marked it as might-read
Aug 06, 2008
Judith
marked it as to-read
