“The world is complicated,’ she added. ‘You don’t have to have one emotion at a time.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“...mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“He’s also able to accept death. He’s not happy about it, but he’s perfectly calm. When I stop all this treatment, it… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“...when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“and sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you’re with someone who is dying, you may need to… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Often we feel the need to say that a book isn’t just about a particular time or place but is about the… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally,” writes Kabat-Zinn. “This kind of attention… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say -… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
And my first item on each day's list is this: Wake up. If I can check that off, I've already done something and can… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. I don’t think I’ll ever get over Melanie’s… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“and sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you’re with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
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… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“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… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“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… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“Connelly writes, “As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“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… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“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… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
...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-… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share
“Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.” — will schwalbe Copy Share
