I’m a man on a mission these days, a mission to underline all of my favourite quotes from the books I read. This is my ‘Underline’ series where I share those quotes with y’all. 

PS: I underline in pencil of course, I’m not a monster.

This post is all about my favourite quotes from Mitch Albom’s book, ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven’.

Enjoy! 🙂

• “All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”
• “Every life has one true-love snapshot.”
• “But as she walked away, she turned and waved. That was the snapshot. For the rest of his life, whenever he thought of Marguerite, Eddie would see that moment, her waving over her shoulder, her dark hair falling over one eye, and he would feel the same arterial burst of love.
• “No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”
• “The running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”
• “People often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.”
• “Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.”
• “There are norandom acts. We are all connected. You can no more seperateone life from another than you can seperate a breeze from the wind.”
• “Strangers,” the Blue Man said, “are just family you have yet to come to know.”
• No life is a waste,” the Blue Man. “The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking that we are alone.”
• “As always with Marguerite, Eddie mostly wants to freeze time.”
• “War had crawled inside of Eddie, in his leg and his soul. He learned many things as a soldier. He came home a different man.”
• “In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he’s praying in a foxhole.”
• “Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”
• “The Capt grinned. ‘The way I see it, that’s what we’re getting here soldier. That’s what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.'”
• “You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big Sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.”
• “Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.”
• “You have peace,” the old woman said, “when you make it with yourself.”
• “He sat down in his life. And there he remained.”
• “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death? Eddie shrugged. “Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.”
• “Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade and the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
• “You made me love you. I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t want to do it. You made me love you and all the time you knew it, and all the time you knew it.”
• “The secret of heaven: That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”