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“She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”

Variant: When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
Source: For One More Day

“Holding on to things only breaks your heart.”

Source: The Time Keeper

“It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

Variant: When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
Source: For One More Day

“That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.”

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“Kids chase the love that eludes them.”

Source: For One More Day