The Time Keeper (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• Dor "Father Time": He is Father Time, married to Alli. Always had an interest in the concept of 'time'. Paid big price because of his counting, is as ordinary as another man, but his interest in time made him special to God.The main protagonist who learned his lesson after 6000 years.
• Sarah Lemon: She is an awkward, chubby high school senior, is picked on, imperfect and like so many of us....just wants to be loved.
• Victor Delemonte: He is married to Grace, the 14th richest man in the world, got diseased and wanted to avoid death at all costs.
• Alli: She is Dor's wife. Dor’s every action and thought revolves around his wife and finding a way to return to her. Their love seems boundless and real.
• Grace Delemonte: She is married to Victor.
• Ethan: The young man Sarah falls for. He once tried to seduce her but has since shown no interest. She texts him obsessively, travels to New York to buy him an expensive watch and asks him to meet her on Christmas Eve to present her gift. When Ethan rejects Sarah’s advances, she tries to kill herself.
• Nim: He is the older brother of Dor who becomes a king and builds the Tower of Babel.
• Tom Lemon: He is Sarah's father. After her parents divorce, Tom remarries and moves to Ohio with his new family.
• Lorraine Lemon: She is Sarah's mother. She does not know or understand what her daughter is going through. She is not close with her daughter.
• Old Man: He is the servant of the Gods who places Dor in the cave for trying to have power over time. He keeps Dor in the cave for six thousand years but frees him to find two people to help understand the value of time.
• Jed: He is the head of the cryonics facility where Victor plans his future.
• Roger: Victor's loyal assistant who knows of Victor's plans. Victor trusts him to help in the end to carry out Victor's plans
• Uncle Mark: He is Lorraine's brother from North Carolina who is there for Lorraine when she needs him.
• Gildesh: Add a description of this character.

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• “"There is a reason God limits our days." "Why?""To make each one precious."”

  Dor

• “He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the fianl drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared soul, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky.”

  narrator

• “Acknowledgements - First, thanks to God. I do nothing without His grace.”

• “We do not realize the sound the world makes--unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when is starts, it sounds like an orchestra.”

  Narrator

• “Yes. He learned to appreciate the life he had led.”

• “When you are measuring life, you are not living it. I know.”

  Dor

• “There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone.”

• “"I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive."”

  Dor

• “Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endure. A fear of time running out.”

  Mitch Albom

• “Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.”

  Mitch Albom

• “But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”

• “When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”

• “Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.What's that?Hope.”

• “Ends are for yesterdays, not tomorrows.”

• “All who are born are always dying.”

• “It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”

  Old man

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• France
• Heaven
• Germany

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Mitch Albom (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Will Schwalbe (Editor) - Schwalbe wrote The End of Your Life Book Club

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• Library of Congress: PS3601.L335T57 2012
• Dewey: 813'.6 dc23

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• Books › Literature & Fiction

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