Book club Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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 even believe…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Will Schwalbe