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Nicky
A member of the human “freak show” at Ruby Pier during Eddie’s childhood, and one of the five people Eddie meets in heaven. He is an anxious, lonely, and forgiving man. Born Joseph Corvelzchik, his first memory is his mother lifting him over the ocean as they emigrated from Poland. As a small child, his parents forced him to work in a sweatshop out of economic desperation. He was then given silver nitrate for his nerves, which turned his skin the color blue. Shunned by society, he was invited to join a traveling circus. After years of traveling, he settled permanently at Ruby Pier, where he found community and a sense of home. He died from a heart attack, caused by the shock from a young Eddie running into the street after a lost ball on his birthday. The Blue Man teaches Eddie that all lives are connected, even strangers.
The Blue Man Quotes in The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The The Five People You Meet in Heaven quotes below are all either spoken by The Blue Man or refer to The Blue Man. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life.
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Chapter 10
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You are here so I can teach you something (…) That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
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Strangers (…) are just family you have yet to come to know.”
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No life is a waste (…) The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
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The Blue Man Quotes in The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The The Five People You Meet in Heaven quotes below are all either spoken by The Blue Man or refer to The Blue Man. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life.
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Chapter 10
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You are here so I can teach you something (…) That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
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Strangers (…) are just family you have yet to come to know.”
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No life is a waste (…) The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
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