The Five People You Meet in Heaven (The Five People You Meet in Heaven, #1)

by Mitch Albom

sun. 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.

“No life is a waste,” the Blue Man said. “The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

“Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.

“Life has to end,” she said. “Love doesn’t.”