Will Schwalbe Quotes

The apartment is an oasis - of civility, kindness, and elegance.

1. You have nothing to fear. Remember that your vote is secret. Only you and your God know how you vote. 2.

3. You don’t have to talk all the time. Sometimes just being there is enough.

Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?

And when people would say to Mom, I’ll include you in my prayers, it gave her great solace. It wasn’t a platitude for her—when she knew people were praying for her, it was something concrete and immen...

As we were talking, a social worker came in with a questionnaire. Did Mary (I thought it was odd that they always called her Mary even though her name was Mary Anne, and odder that Mom refused to corr...

Books have played a role in almost every one of the world's great civil and human rights movements, but only because people who read them decided to act. Reading brings with it responsibility.

But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore the circumstances and time in or about which it was written.

Connectivity is one thing; connectivity is another. . . . Constant connectivity can be a curse, encouraging the lesser angels of our nature. None of the nine Muses of classical times bore the names I...

Everyone doesn't have to do everything, she told me. People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging thin...

For me, there’s something about planes that isolates and intensifies sadness, the way a looking glass can magnify the sun until it grows unbearably hot and burns.

How can you be lonely, Mom said, when there are always people who want to share their stories with you, to tell you about their lives and families and dreams and plans?

How does a doctor tell you that it’s over, that there are things they could do but probably shouldn’t, and that if your aim is quality of life and not quantity of life, there simply are no good next t...

I needed to remind myself that good news and bad news are often relative to your expectations, not anything absolute.

I spend my life collecting books and sentences from them: I've sought alongside ones I've stumbled across, and sentences I've forced into my brain through rote memorization alongside ones that just fo...

This, I finally realized, was how Mom was able to focus when I was not. It was how she was able to be present with me, present with the people at a benefit or the hospital. She felt whatever emotions...

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 book was that? The Book of Common Prayer, Mom answered. Didion? No, Will. Mom’s...

Remarked to Mom how all the books we were reading then shared not just length but a certain theme: fate and the effects of the choices people make. I think most good books share that theme, Mom said.

They would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and eventually Iris Murdoch and Alan Bennett. They could all be readers, and mayb...

After reading , I vowed that I would take a trip to my room every few months, and these have been some of the happiest days I've spent. It's an incredible luxury to be home and not sick, to wake up wi...