mitch albom

“ It's like this line is drawn somewhere in the world and if you never cross it, you'll never consider throwing yourself off a building. ”

“ I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means youll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldnt. ”

“ Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves. ”

“ That's how my father was, he started things with an aim to finish them. ”

“ There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice. ”

“ Thats what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays. ”

“ Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. ”

“ I carried a baseball glove because he loved baseball, and I took every hardball he threw, even the ones that stung my hands so badly I thought I would scream. ”

“ Secrets tear you apart. ”

“ All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. ”