Dina

“When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.”
― mitch albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth