Will Schwalbe

“...the apartment is an oasis - of civility, kindness, and elegance.”

— Will Schwalbe

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

— Will Schwalbe

“How great, I thought, to honor people while they are still alive.”

— Will Schwalbe

“The Uncommon Reader, a novella by Alan Bennett”

— Will Schwalbe

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...

— Will Schwalbe

“What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?”

— Will Schwalbe

“Felicia’s Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor.”

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

“I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.”

— Will Schwalbe

“I asked: “And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?” “Of course not—I’d read it first.”

— Will Schwalbe

“The thing about Americans,” she said, “is that you’re very concerned about everything all the time.” Mom”

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

“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

“Everyone doesn't have to do everything... People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've…

— Will Schwalbe

And my first item on each day's list is this: Wake up. If I can check that off, I've already done something…

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to…

— Will Schwalbe

“Mom’s reaction to this chaos isn’t a surprise. No matter how high the bill that she is paying or that Medicare is…

— Will Schwalbe

“For me, there’s something about planes that isolates and intensifies sadness, the way a looking glass can magnify the sun until it…

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly…

— Will Schwalbe

“I flipped open to read the marked passage in Daily Strength: “It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work…

— Will Schwalbe

“We all owe everyone for everything that happens in our lives. But it’s not owing like a debt to one person—it’s really…

— Will Schwalbe

...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…

— Will Schwalbe

“life depends on what she thinks of as ‘big bursts’ and ‘little bursts.’ Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies…

— Will Schwalbe

“Mom went on to tell me, as we sat there, that she really believed your personal life was personal. Secrets, she felt,…

— Will Schwalbe

“On this particular day, there was a woman in line right in front of us. She was in her thirties, smartly but…

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

“We would also have to say goodbye to the joy of watching this next generation soak up the massive quantities of love…

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

“I particularly like that last phrase," Mom said. "About protecting your own happiness.”

— Will Schwalbe

“For this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.”

— Will Schwalbe

“Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our…

— Will Schwalbe

“If you stayed at home, you might not get the opportunity to go to that place again. But if you went, you…

— Will Schwalbe

“...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

“I needed to remind myself that good news and bad news are often relative to your expectations, not anything absolute.”

— Will Schwalbe