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Will Schwalbe shares that books can give people hidden strength and change the way their brains work. He recalls refugees asking for books before medicine, and he admits he loves books even if he doesn’t always read them. He also notes that books help us talk about things we find hard to say.

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“book called The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch,”

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“All readers have reading in common.”

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“I like books. I don't read them. But I like them.”

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“Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?”

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We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

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“Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence.”

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“...books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval...”

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“Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask”

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If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

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“Often we feel the need to say that a book isn’t just about a particular time or place but is about the…

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“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same…

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We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last,…

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“Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us…

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“But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another…

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“He remains for my family the perfect model of how you can be gone but ever present in the lives of people…

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That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about…

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“they would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and…

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“I used to say that the greatest gift you could ever give anyone is a book. But I don't say that anymore…

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“There are certain books that I mean to read and keep stacked by my bedside. I even take them on trips. Some…

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“We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.…

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“And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say -…

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“There was one sure way to avoid being assigned an impromptu chore in our house - be it taking out the trash…

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“No one in the family has ever really gotten over Bob’s death. We talk of him daily, recounting stories and imagining what…

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“It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic…

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“I did manage to read some pages from a book that’s also about how people can find strength they didn’t know they…

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“Halpern wants the reader to think about the difference between asking “How are you feeling?” and “Do you want me to ask…

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“Mom taught me not to look away from the worst but to believe that we can all do better. She never wavered…

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“We found ourselves discussing the three kinds of fateful choices that exist in the two books: the ones characters make knowing that…

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“But the thing that made it most interesting is what it had to say about books and religion. I love how Brooks…

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“We had chosen as our next book club selection Jhumpa Lahiri’s new collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, as we’d both loved…

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“As for me, I'm on a search and have been, I now realize, all my life - to find books to help…

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“I can’t see giving up real books,” she said. “And I love that I can give away my books after I’ve read…

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“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and…

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“reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and…

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“That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently,…

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“all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for…

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“books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -…

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“We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each…

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“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about.…

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“Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought…

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“If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.”

In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe…

“I did manage to read some pages from a book that’s also about how people can find strength they didn’t know they had.” “What…

“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates…

“Connelly writes, “As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as…

“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books.…

“asked: “And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?” “Of course not—I’d read it first. I don’t think I could have stood…

“A father and his son are in a terrible car crash. The father is killed instantly—but the son survives, barely, his life hanging in…

...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer-…

“I like books. I don't read them. But I like them.”

“Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.”