Will Schwalbe Quotes

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• It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss…
• 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 that we owe…
• Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.
• The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...
• We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.
• If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.
• That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t…
• But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it’s not just…
• Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.
• I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future…
• One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But…
• If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who…
• What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn't the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is,…
• As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly say it, or…
• You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.
• 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, each conversation the…
• You don't have to have one emotion at a time.
• In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose…
• With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to…
• 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 God…

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