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“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Holding on to things only breaks your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“There is a reason God limits man's days.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“No matter how smart she appeared, she was
fragile at her core.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“You had many more years,” he said.
“I didn’t want them.”
“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to
your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”
“What’s that?”
“Hope.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.
And when hope is gone, time is punishment.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“When hope is gone, time is punishment.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper