You see this face, these wrinkles? I earned every one of them - Mitch Albom

The distance between death and life is not as great as you imagine.

By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb — more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here — andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

"All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you." Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. "What?" he said. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."