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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 it, it’s easier to recognize. That was always the hardest thing in the refugee camps—to hear the stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/it-s-cruelty-that-gets-to-me-still-it-s-important-to-read-about/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

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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, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/that-s-one-of-the-amazing-things-great-books-like-this-do-they-don-t/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

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## Other authors on Amazing things

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## More by 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 and can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/and-my-first-item-on-each-day-s-list-is-this-wake-up-if-i-can-check/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/you-can-truly-miss-characters-not-like-you-miss-people-but-you-can/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/and-sister-and-father-and-mother-had-i-was-learning-that-when-you-re/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/hidden-away-the-people-of-the-streets-drift-into-sleep-induced-by/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/if-heathen-prayers-were-indeed-the-best-of-all-then-mine-should-count/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/in-gilead-the-narrator-s-friend-s-son-describes-himself-not-as-an/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/i-did-manage-to-read-some-pages-from-a-book-that-s-also-about-how/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/i-m-not-the-same-reader-when-i-finish-a-book-as-i-was-when-i-started/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“Connelly writes, “As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/connelly-writes-as-long-as-there-is-paper-people-will-write-secretly/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/when-i-think-back-on-all-the-refugee-camps-i-visited-all-over-the/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/asked-and-i-was-very-surprised-by-the-ending-were-you-of-course-not-i/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 hanging in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/a-father-and-his-son-are-in-a-terrible-car-crash-the-father-is-killed/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 of cancer-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/in-the-eyes-of-her-oldest-friends-and-colleagues-and-extended-family/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“I like books. I don't read them. But I like them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/i-like-books-i-don-t-read-them-but-i-like-them/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/lahiri-s-characters-just-like-people-all-around-us-are-constantly/)

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