Riza Gotera

“What if I lose you?"
"You can't lose your mother, Charley.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“She cared. She gave a crap. When I lacked even the self-respect to keep myself alive, she dabbed my cuts and I fell back into being a son; I fell as easily as you fall into your pillow at night. And I didn’t want it to end. That’s the best way I can explain it. I knew it was impossible. But I didn’t want it to end.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day