C. S. Lewis, the man who wrote the Narnia books you so loved, once said it is easy to trust a rope as long as you’re using it to wrap a box. But when… - Mitch Albom

This time was different. The tools of this era — phones, computers — enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they accomplished, they were never at peace.

She would tell her that endings are also beginnings, we just don't know it at the time.

I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.