(Mitch Albom)

• "Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted." (pg. 40)
• "Love wins. Love always wins." (pg. 40)
• "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." (pg. 52)
• "Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." (pg. 82)
• "If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important." (pg. 91)
• "Without love, we are birds with broken wings." (pg. 92)
• Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all. (pg. 114)
• "There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: if you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike." (pg. 149)
• "We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?" (pg. 157)
• "In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?" His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well." (pg. 157)
• "As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here." (pg. 174)
• "Death ends a life, not a relationship." (pg. 174)
• "Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own." (pg. 178)