K. Mitch Quotes

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

There is no formula to relationships.

Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.

Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

I worked because I could control it.

As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

Love each other or die.

Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired. "No, I'm not," she replied. "Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.

This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley.

It's the thinking that gets you killed.

You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

Tears are okay [Morrie Schwartz]

The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

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!

When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.

That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

I'm in love with hope.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you.

My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).

Love is the only rational act.

Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

You're not going to fix things by helping 65-year-olds or 75-year-olds for any long run.

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing.

I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.