Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom (2002)

"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

I knew he was right.
Not that I did anything about it.

A Summer to Die - Lois Lowry (1977)

" 'It tried to be a rose... and failed, and all the summer laughed: but just before the snows there came a purple creature that ravished all the hill; and summer hid her forehead, and mockery was still.' "

"...[Y]ou should have been a poet."

... "A truck mechanic would have been more practical."

...

[I]t would be summer still, summer always.


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"You made me beautiful[.]"

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"[Y]ou were beautiful all along."

A Summer to Die - Lois Lowry (1977)

"...I'm sorry I forgot."
"You didn't forget... It wasn't time until now."

A Summer to Die - Lois Lowry (1977)

"...We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh."

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And I knew that, hard as it was for me, with my helplessness, my anger, and the dreams that came like faceless prowlers into my sleep and filled me with fear, it was worse for [her].

the five people you meet in heaven - Mitch Albom (2003)

"...I felt like I wasn't supposed to be there."
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"Supposed to be there[.]"
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"Fixing rides? That was my existence? ... Why?"
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She tilted her head, as if it were obvious.
"Children[.] You keep them safe. You make good for me."
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"Is where you were supposed to be ." she said, and then she touched his shirt patch with a small laugh...


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"Not her hands," she said. "My hands. ... Keep you safe."

the five people you meet in heaven - Mitch Albom (2003)

"... [T]he secret of heaven: ... each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."