“Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us… — 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… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I think women should have choices and should be able to do what they like, and I think it's a great choice… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went… — 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
“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
“We would also have to say goodbye to the joy of watching this next generation soak up the massive quantities of love… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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,… — 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
