- Ruby: Eddie, anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.
- Marguerite: Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand, you can't tousle their hair, but when those senses weaken, another one comes to life. Memory... memory becomes your partner. You hold it, you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie. Love doesn't.
- Captain: People stop sacrificing for one another, they lose what makes 'em human. It's the noblest thing we do.
- Morton: [to Young Eddie who is shaving] Hey, Golden Locks! It gonna take ya a lot longer than that to get as pretty as me, you know that?
- Eddie: Why is everything so different than I thought?
- Ruby: Well, when you first came here, do you remember how you felt?
- Eddie: I had no pain, no worry.
- Ruby: No hate. That's because no one is born with anger. We build it over the years with the things we don't say, with the things we bury. When we die, the soul is freed of it, free to see the truth.
- Blue Man: You can't talk when you first arrive. It's God's little... lesson, I suppose. Helps you listen.
- [first lines]
- Ruby: [narrating] This is a story about a man named Eddie. And it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. You might think it's strange to start a story with an ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
- Eddie's Father: [chastising his squabbling sons] This war in Europe keeps up, you'll be lucky you get a crappy job like mine.
- Mickey Shea: [to young Eddie] Here's the thing about the war. You don't think; you just shoot and you shoot, and then you pray you come home. It's the thinking that gets you killed.
- Marguerite: I've never been more than five miles from here.
- Young Eddie: Me neither. But that's gonna change.
- Marguerite: Really?
- Young Eddie: Yeah, I ain't spending my life at Ruby Pier.
- Ruby: [narrating] Eddie saw nothing of his final moment on Earth. He felt no pain from his death. All he felt was lightness and calm, as if every hurt he had ever suffered had been washed away. And then he woke up.
- Blue Man: People think of Heaven as a Garden of Eden - mountains, rivers - but what is scenery without solace? This is the greatest gift God can give you, Edward - to understand your life on Earth. Tis why you are here.
- [last lines]
- Ruby: This is the story of a man named Eddie, who lived and died, and would one day himself share the secret of Heaven - that each life affects the other, and the other affects the next.
- [He sees his wife on the ferris wheel]
- Ruby: And the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
- Blue Man: There are five people you meet in Heaven, Edward. Each one of us was in your life for a reason.
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By what name was The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004) officially released in Canada in English?
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