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

“You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. I don’t think I’ll ever get…

— 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…

— Will Schwalbe

“Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them…

— Will Schwalbe

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Will Schwalbe

“Connelly writes, “As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds,…

— 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

“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…

— 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

...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

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

— 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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“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

“Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us…

— 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

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

— Will Schwalbe

One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out…

— Will Schwalbe

“I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales,…

— Will Schwalbe

“All readers have reading in common.”

— Will Schwalbe

“And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say -…

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Will Schwalbe

What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn't the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children…

— Will Schwalbe