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“But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“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. ”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.
The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“One day can bend your life.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Secrets tear you apart.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Things change when you're not in danger anymore.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“She cared. She gave a crap. When I lacked even the self-respect to keep myself alive, she dabbed my cuts and I fell back into being a son; I fell as easily as you fall into your pillow at night. And I didn’t want it to end. That’s the best way I can explain it. I knew it was impossible. But I didn’t want it to end.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“I love you every day,
Mom”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Remember me for these days, not the old ones.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Have you ever dreamt of someone who’s gone,but in the dream you have new conversation? The world you enter then is not so far from the world I'm in now.”
― Mitch Albom , For One More Day

“You have one family. For good or bad. You have one family. You can't trade them in. You can't lie to them. Sticking to your family is what makes it a family.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Believe, hard work, love-you have those things, you can do anything.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice. ”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Going back to something is harder than you think.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those
you love.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day