Mitch Albom

And for all my wishing, I knew I couldn't make her come back.

So the whole idea of...

being able to change mortality was kind of inside me already.

And I wanted my character to have that limit too.

The second part of your question, why love?

That's deliberate because I believe that

And the point that I wanted to make with Twice was that love is different than... It's not the last shot of a basketball game.

You don't go back and just change the play, get the ball a little differently, throw it in, the ball goes in instead of missing, you win the game, done.

Love starts with the ignition, but you have to keep it going.

And it is, to me...

The hundredth day of being in love and the thousandth day of being in love and the ten thousandth day of being in love are all part of love.

And if you want to, you could no more go back and start all over again and get that same thing back.

Then you could take river, take water that had run downstream from a river and say, let's put it back upstream.

It's happened already.

So I made the rules like, uh-uh.

If you decide this person's in love with me and we've been in love for years, but you know what?

I kind of like that one over there.

All right.

Make that decision, but you don't get to take that love with you when you make that decision.

That's gone.