What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want — someone to notice she was there. - Mitch Albom

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

In stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital-room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world.

"It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. " He finally whispered, "We also need to forgive ourselves."