Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

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You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!

People are only mean when they are threatened.