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

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

- 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.

- 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

...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

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

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

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

- 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…

- Will Schwalbe