First Phone Call from Heaven

by Mitch Albom

You have to start over. That’s what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really “starting over.” More like “continuing without.”

if anything were going to take away her beautiful, funny, precious older sister, it would be that her heart was so big, it exploded.

Simply put, Ben had given up.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.

“I never said good-bye.” “Such a needless word,” she said, “when you love somebody.”