“One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“There was one sure way to avoid being assigned an impromptu chore in our house - be it taking out the trash… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“He remains for my family the perfect model of how you can be gone but ever present in the lives of people… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Mom taught me not to look away from the worst but to believe that we can all do better. She never wavered… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
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,… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Halpern wants the reader to think about the difference between asking “How are you feeling?” and “Do you want me to ask… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“they would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“We found ourselves discussing the three kinds of fateful choices that exist in the two books: the ones characters make knowing that… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“But the thing that made it most interesting is what it had to say about books and religion. I love how Brooks… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“But mostly, when I look back, what I remember is not Mom rushing about; it’s Mom sitting quietly in the center of… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“No one in the family has ever really gotten over Bob’s death. We talk of him daily, recounting stories and imagining what… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I can’t see giving up real books,” she said. “And I love that I can give away my books after I’ve read… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass them on… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“In December 2008, I had the book with me while we waited for Dr. O'Reilly. Mom had already finished it. Every time… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently,… — 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 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
