The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom. Time Warner Paperbacks (2005). 229 pages.
An old man, Eddie, who is working at the amusement park called Ruby Pier, dies in a tragic accident after trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. The story actually begins after the death of the old man on his eighty-third birthday. In afterlife, Eddie goes to heaven, but it neither the place of peace nor the place full of happiness. Instead, it is the place where he meets five people who connected to him when he was alive, who were also the reason why he lived 'til the old age. He's never expected that he would experience something like that in heaven. Anyway, each meeting with those people helps him understand his past and gives him a lesson about life.
This book taught me about life and death, and how one's actions affect others. I really enjoyed when I was reading. It's like I was learning the lessons with Eddie. Mitch Albom's style of writing attracted me. After finished reading the story, what I had in mind was that I would definitely buy more books of this author.
My Favorite quotes from The Five People You Meet in Heaven:
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
“Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”
“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”
“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.”
“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”
