Will Schwalbe Quotes

• The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.

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  Giving, Attention, Undivided Attention

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.162, Vintage

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• 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, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn't what you give in exchange for something; it's what you feel when you are blessed--blessed to have family and friends who care about you, and who want to see you happy. Hence the joy from thanking.

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  Gratitude, Children, Blessed

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• If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

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  Wells, Ifs

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.209, Vintage

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• You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

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  Emoción

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.77, Vintage

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• We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

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  Puede hacer

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.11, Vintage

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• 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 want to talk about ourselves.

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  Book, Giving, Want

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.52, Vintage

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• 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 get on with the business of living and trying to honor the memory of those I love who are no longer here.

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  Memories, Honor, Trying

  "7 Ways to Get Through a Painful Loss" by Will Schwalbe, www.oprah.com. January 4, 2013.

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• You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

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  Character, People, Missing

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.129, Vintage

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• Todos estamos en deuda con todos por todo lo que ocurre en nuestras vidas. Pero no es que estemos en deuda con una sola persona--es que en realidad estamos en deuda con todos por todo. Toda nuestra vida puede cambiar en un instante, así que cada persona que evita que eso ocurra, por pequeño que sea su papel, también es responsable de todo. Sólo con dar amistad y amor, evitas que las personas que te rodean se rindan, y cada expresión de amistad o amor puede ser la que marque la diferencia.

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  Giving Up, Love You, Expression

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.180, Vintage

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• 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 about second chances. Most people deserve an endless number of chances.

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  Second Chance, Numbers, People

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• 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 find out what happened in the past and what will happen next. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, it is a powerful new work of fiction by an internationally acclaimed writer at the height of his powers.

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  Powerful, Regret, Past

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• 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 final one.

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  Book, Finals, Clubs

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• Si nuestra familia fuera una compañía aérea, mamá sería el centro y nosotros los radios. Rara vez se iba a un sitio sin escalas; se pasaba por mamá, que dirigía el flujo de tráfico y determinaba las prioridades: qué miembro de la familia tenía permiso para despegar o aterrizar. Ni siquiera mi padre era inmune a los horarios de mamá, aunque tenía más libertad de acción que los demás.

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  Mom, Father, Priorities

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.13, Vintage

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• Una de las muchas cosas que me gustan de los libros encuadernados es su aspecto físico. Los libros electrónicos viven fuera de la vista y de la mente. Pero los libros impresos tienen cuerpo, presencia. Claro, a veces te eluden escondiéndose en lugares inverosímiles... Pero otras veces te harán frente, y tropezarás literalmente con algunos tomos en los que no habías pensado en semanas o años. A menudo busco libros electrónicos, pero nunca vienen a por mí. Puede que me hagan sentir, pero no puedo sentirlos. Son todo alma sin carne, sin textura y sin peso. Pueden meterse en tu cabeza, pero no golpearte en ella.

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  Book, Elude You, Sight

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.40, Vintage

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• 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 all at the same time.

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  Past, Dying, Needs

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.112, Vintage

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• Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

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  Reading, Opposites, Dying

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.11, Vintage

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• ...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 of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting

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  Teacher, Cancer, Eye

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• 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 doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views-I just didn't think about religion.

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  Mom, Atheist, Believe

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.85, Vintage

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• 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 where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

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  Beautiful, Teacher, Writing

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• Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

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  Evil, Cruelty

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.130, Vintage

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• 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 they say it so obliquely that the other characters don’t catch it. Readers are frequently reminded of the gulf between what people say and what they mean, and such moments prod us to become more attuned to gesture, tone, and language.

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  Carácter, Malo, Gente

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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 characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

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  Missing Someone, Character, People

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.129, Vintage

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