"He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That,"… - Mitch Albom

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else.

It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.