K. Mitch Quotes
Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.
Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It helps you listen.
We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.
There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.
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.
No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.
He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.
All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.
There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.
A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.
Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.
It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.
But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.
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.
I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.
It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?
Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.
Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4
There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.
To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.
Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.