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.

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb—more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here—andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

People often belittle the place where they were born.

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.