...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
With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly tu… - Will Schwalbe
With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly tu…
- 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 get on with the business of livin… - 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 get on with the business of livin…
...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… - 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 of…
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. - Will Schwalbe
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.
If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything. - Will Schwalbe
If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.
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 … - Will Schwalbe
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 …
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 ourselve… - 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 when we don’t want to talk about ourselve…
You don't have to have one emotion at a time. - Will Schwalbe
You don't have to have one emotion at a time.
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… - 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 think it is, a kind of minimum…
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