Quotes from For One More Day by Mitch Albom

“A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way.”

“Going back to something is harder than you think.”

“Do you ever think while something is happening about what’s happening someplace else?”

“Things change when you’re not in danger anymore.”

“Secrets, they’ll tear you apart.”

“I hope you never hear those words. ‘Your mom. She died.’ They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.”

“You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.”

“I saw in her expression that old, unshakable mountain of concern. And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“You need to keep people close, you need to give them access to your heart.”

“But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and somethings they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.”

“Remember me for these days, not the old ones.”

“One day can bend your life.”

“All that happens when your dream comes true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn’t what you thought, and it won’t save you.”

“‘Mom.’ I hadn’t said it in a long time. When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”