Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

“But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle.”

— Will Schwalbe

“All readers have reading in common.”

— Will Schwalbe

“book called The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch,”

— Will Schwalbe

“There’s never a good excuse for not doing anything—”

— Will Schwalbe

“That there’s great joy in thanking.”

— Will Schwalbe

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

— Will Schwalbe

Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

— Will Schwalbe

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

“Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!”

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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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“Kabat-Zinn writes, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” OBAMA”

— Will Schwalbe

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

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“The world is complicated,’ she added. ‘You don’t have to have one emotion at a time.”

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

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But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And…

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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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“Why did I always need to do something, like referring one person to another, just for the sake of doing something, when…

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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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“and sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you’re with someone who is dying, you may need to…

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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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“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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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…

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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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“He starts to whisper a prayer. “Whatever beings there are, may they be free from suffering. Whatever beings there are, may they…

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“One of Mom’s favorite passages from Gilead was: “This is an important thing, which I have told many people, and which my…

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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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“We’ve reached a point in American history when death has become almost the last obscenity. Have you noticed how many of us…

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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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“I was thinking a lot about loneliness, because we were now reading Kokoro, a remarkable novel by Natsume Soseki, which was published…

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“It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty. “Why is it important?” Because when you read about…

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“The thank-you thing had been drummed into us intensely when we were growing up. We had three great-aunts, on my mother’s side,…

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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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“I think women should have choices and should be able to do what they like, and I think it's a great choice…

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“a philosophy called Naikan, developed by Ishin Yoshimoto. Naikan reminds people to be grateful for everything. If you are sitting in a…

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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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“Mom also believed that there is such a thing as a good secret. Maybe something kind you did for someone but didn’t…

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