For One More Day by Mitch Albom

"Of course, when you're that young, you nest in your parents' plan, not your own."

"Going back to something is harder than you think."

"You do what you gotta do to hold you family together."

"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. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up."

"You can find something truly important in a minute."

"It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it."

"A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let you part disappear that way."

"Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them."

"And one day spent with someone you love can change everything."

"When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times."

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

"I'm afraid this dreadful nonsense is the law."

"When someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed."

"The worst surrounding in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind."

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Part II)

"Water never stops moving. Rain falls, and runs down a mountain into a river. The river finds its way to the ocean. It evaporates like a soul into the clouds. And then, like everything else, it starts all over again." (Anna)

"I realize the we never have children, we receive them. (Sara)

"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." (Julia)
"On the other hand, I have Anna, who after 13 years is standing up for herself -even though it may mean losing the sister that she loves."
"When you love someone, you'll do anything you can to keep them with you. Unfortunately, there is also a point when you have to step back and say that it's time to let go."
"Sometimes to get what you wanted the most, you have to do what you want the least."
"It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get."

"Things don't always seem as they look." (Brian)
"Life isn't as stable as we want it to be."

" 'I don't talk about this with anyone.' -Campbell
'I am not just anyone.' " -Anna

"That everyone gets scared."

" 'They (Phoenix) don't really exist.' -Julia
'..that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them' -Campbell

"Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?"