Twice Mitch Albom Quotes

I want, and you want, and God does what God wants.

There are years you think about for moments, and moments you think about for years.

Some of the biggest things in life happen over the smallest turns in the day.

Alfie, if you keep getting second chances, you won’t learn a damn thing.

When we’re young, we want to satisfy every desire. When we’re old, our greatest desire is to not die alone.

Suspicion and belief can’t share the same bed.

We invent all kinds of theories about how our hearts get broken, when we're the ones who drop them on the floor.

Because The Truth About True Love is that it can wait a lifetime. Or two.

That would prove to be a mistake, and my first lesson in The Truth About True Love: what we yearn for, deep down, is a heart that will embrace us after we make a fool of ourselves.

I blinked back tears. I looked up into Lallu's small, steady eyes, and understood another Truth About True Love: it makes you feel like you belong someplace.

What we yearn for, deep down, is a heart that will embrace us AFTER we make a fool of ourselves.

When you are lonely and you suddenly find a friend, it fills up your world.

And what you tell yourself long enough becomes, like new paint on an old wall, the only color you see.

Secrecy is a loan against your better judgment. You pay the interest in regret.

Instead, I hid my flaws, afraid they would cost me her affection. That would prove to be a mistake, and my first lesson in The Truth About Love: what we yearn for, deep down, is a heart that will embrace us after we make a fool of ourselves.

The way you don’t give up until you’ve figured it out.

A split had formed in my heart. And here is another Truth About True Love: only a whole heart can support it.

What is it about time and love that turns us from red with desire to pale with familiarity?

Losing it left a hole inside me forever. But in that hospital room I realized, even if I could never receive such love again, I hadn't lost the ability to give it. To shower you with it from afar.

When you realize you are about to lose a parent, you suddenly want to know everything, say everything, share every little detail you omitted during the years when you were taking them for granted.

I’ve noticed something about dying, Boss. When you come into this world, you have all these people who want to take care of you, and you don’t know any of them. Then, when you’re leaving this world, you have all these people you do know, but few of them want to be bothered.

There are years you think about for moments, and moments you think about for years. What happened

At some point, you get tired of reliving the past. You’re ready for what comes next.

What I've learned - after all this time - is that love is indeed the only rational act. And the only real lifesaver.

...The Truth About True Love is that it can wait a lifetime.

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. —C. S. LEWIS

You know it’s creepy to stare at a girl’s butt,” she said. She spun her head around. “You’re not a creep, are you, Alfie?

Looking back, I suppose I was depressed. I had lost Wesley as I had lost my mother. Both too young. Both too soon. Perhaps dallying with death was a way of feeling closer to where they’d gone. I don’t know. It doesn’t always make sense, the way you miss somebody. Sometimes, hurt seeks hurt.

When was your first time?” Yaya asked me. “Mom’s last day.” “You saw that twice?” “Yes.” She nodded and looked to the window. “Makes sense. It’s usually a heartbreak that starts it. You want so badly to undo something. And then . . . it just happens.

Being able to do things twice may have sharpened my confidence with other people, but around her I felt awkward in how I stood, how I slouched, even where I put my arms. It was as if my body were constantly auditioning. They say the strongest kinds of love make you feel that way, right? Sort of dizzy? I was dizzy around Gianna all the time.

There are years you think about for moments, and moments you think about for years. What happened next is a moment that never leaves my heart.

How simple, if you knew the consequences, to avoid the dumb mistakes you make in life.

I figure every little thing that happens is part of life or fate or God or whatever leading me to where I’m supposed to be.

Cayenne pepper,” he said, grabbing a shaker, “for the passion, yes? A lemon, for life’s disappointments. Some vinegar, for the challenges you will face. “And this . . .” He grabbed a jar of honey. “For the sweetness and joy.

we entered the hospital as expectant parents and we left as something else, unexpectant, if that’s a word, not just of a child but, in time, of a certain happiness. We seemed to cross into a new, barren country, a gray place where dreams were mostly lost causes.

satisfy every desire. When we’re old, our greatest desire is to not die alone.

Since I mentioned Esther, Boss, I should get to how this power affected me in love. I find myself clinging to that subject these days. Who I’ve loved. Who’s loved me back. Who will keep me company in my final days? When we’re young, we want to satisfy every desire. When we’re old, our greatest desire is to not die alone.

What was it they said about passion and rocket fuel? They both burn fast?

Buy or leave. That’s what it felt like. Invest in whatever it would take to get Gianna back—long talks, long apologies, new promises, new behavior—or walk away, licking my wounds. I walked away.

When we’re young

Of all the things that had happened to me twice

I want

There are years you think about for moments