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

by Mitch Albom

“Kid, I never been anywhere I wasn’t shipped to with a rifle.”

For the record, Eddie’s final words would be “Get back!”

“That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.”

“Strangers,” the Blue Man said, “are just family you have yet to come to know.”

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

“That’s because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it.

“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.”