• "You didn't just jump a train, boy. You done jumped the Flying Squadron of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectaculaw Show on Earth"
• "Jacob?" "Yeah?" "You can call me Walter in you want." - Walter
• "And so I leave, although every bone in my body screams against it." - Jacob
• "My heart pounds so hard that, depsite the roaring of the crowd, I am aware of blood wooshing through my ears. I am filled to overflowing, bursting with love." - Jacob
• "Nothing's okay. Queenie was all I had. You understand that?" His voice drops to whimper. "She was all I had." - Walter
• "I want to believe that taking Walter's knife didn't make a difference. But still, I left him without a knife, without even a chance." - Jacob
• "And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I can do to not melt into a fit of giggles. So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this is home." - Jacob
• "A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion- a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone." - David
• "The world was a vast and unpredictable and sometimes frightening place" - Caroline
• " You bastard, she whispered, watching the photographs flame high before they blackened and curled and disappeared." "Light to light; ashes to ashes; dust, at last, to dust." - Norah
• "I waved goodbye with the letter. It didn't occur to her, I guess, that I was just starting school and didn't know how to read. That was my mother. It was the thought that counted" - Chick
• "She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me." - Chick
• I dropped out to play minor league baseball, at my father's suggestion and to my mother's everlasting disappointment." - Chick
• "The backside of a mountain is a fight agaisnt human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up." - A mountain climber Chick met
• "A child should never have to choose." - Pauline "Posey" Benetto

for one more day by Mitch Albom