Leah

“The Blue Man held out his hand. “Fairness,” he said, “does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Night is already a shadow cast on the side of the earth that has turned away from the sun. This is a shadow within a shadow, a fragile thing made by moonlight. I can't remember ever seeing mine before. Perhaps I have and I haven't noticed. Perhaps I've never found the right darkness before. Perhaps I wasn't ready for it to unpack its meaning as it does for me here and now. I have gone looking for one thing and found another, not something rare and celestial and beyond my control, but something that was always within my power to find. The act of seeking attuned my senses and primed my mind to make associations. I was open to magic, and I found some, although not the magic I was looking for. That's what you find over and over again when you go lookin: something else. An insight that surprises you. A connection that you would never have made. A new perspective.”
― Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

“The worst part is not the sleeplessness. The worst part is the general darkness the dream leaves over him, a gray film that clouds the day. Even his happy moments feel encased, like holes jabbed in a hard sheet of ice.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“There was a reason to it all,' she said.

'What reason?' he said. 'How could there be a reason? You died. You were forty-seven. You were the best person any of us knew, and you died and lost everything. And I lost everything. I lost the only woman I ever loved.'

She took his hands. 'No, you didn't. I was right here. And you loved me anyway.

Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.

Life has to end,' she said. 'Love doesn't.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven