Mitch Albom

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."

Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

Mitch Albom

"Lost love is still love. 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."

Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala)

Lenny Bruce

"The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is."

Lenny Bruce

Diane Setterfield

"I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled."

Diane Setterfield

John Green

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

John Green

C.S. Lewis

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."

C.S. Lewis

Tamora Pierce

"Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people."

Tamora Pierce (Melting Stones)