Twice Quotes

“I want, and you want, and God does what God wants.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“There are years you think about for moments, and moments you think about for years.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Some of the biggest things in life happen over the smallest turns in the day.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Suspicion and belief can’t share the same bed.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Alfie, if you keep getting second chances, you won’t learn a damn thing.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“I blinked back tears. I looked up into Lallu's small, steady eyes, and understood another Truth About True Love: it makes you feel like you belong someplace.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“We invent all kinds of theories about how our hearts get broken, when we're the ones who drop them on the floor.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“What we yearn for, deep down, is a heart that will embrace us AFTER we make a fool of ourselves.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Because The Truth About True Love is that it can wait a lifetime. Or two.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“That would prove to be a mistake, and my first lesson in The Truth About True Love: what we yearn for, deep down, is a heart that will embrace us after we make a fool of ourselves.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“When we’re young, we want to satisfy every desire. When we’re old, our greatest desire is to not die alone.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“And what you tell yourself long enough becomes, like new paint on an old wall, the only color you see.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Instead, I hid my flaws, afraid they would cost me her affection. That would prove to be a mistake, and my first lesson in The Truth About Love: what we yearn for, deep down, is a heart that will embrace us after we make a fool of ourselves.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“When you are lonely and you suddenly find a friend, it fills up your world.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“A split had formed in my heart. And here is another Truth About True Love: only a whole heart can support it.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“I’ve noticed something about dying, Boss. When you come into this world, you have all these people who want to take care of you, and you don’t know any of them. Then, when you’re leaving this world, you have all these people you do know, but few of them want to be bothered.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Secrecy is a loan against your better judgment. You pay the interest in regret.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“What is it about time and love that turns us from red with desire to pale with familiarity?”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Losing it left a hole inside me forever. But in that hospital room I realized, even if I could never receive such love again, I hadn't lost the ability to give it. To shower you with it from afar.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“When you realize you are about to lose a parent, you suddenly want to know everything, say everything, share every little detail you omitted during the years when you were taking them for granted.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“The way you don’t give up until you’ve figured it out.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“When we’re young”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“There are years you think about for moments”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Of all the things that had happened to me twice”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“I want”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Buy or leave. That’s what it felt like. Invest in whatever it would take to get Gianna back—long talks, long apologies, new promises, new behavior—or walk away, licking my wounds. I walked away.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“What was it they said about passion and rocket fuel? They both burn fast?”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Since I mentioned Esther, Boss, I should get to how this power affected me in love. I find myself clinging to that subject these days. Who I’ve loved. Who’s loved me back. Who will keep me company in my final days? When we’re young, we want to satisfy every desire. When we’re old, our greatest desire is to not die alone.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“we entered the hospital as expectant parents and we left as something else, unexpectant, if that’s a word, not just of a child but, in time, of a certain happiness. We seemed to cross into a new, barren country, a gray place where dreams were mostly lost causes.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Cayenne pepper,” he said, grabbing a shaker, “for the passion, yes? A lemon, for life’s disappointments. Some vinegar, for the challenges you will face. “And this . . .” He grabbed a jar of honey. “For the sweetness and joy.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice