#alzheimer

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love-story #thrillers #love

People think it's just forgetting your keys, she says. Or the words for things. But there are the personality changes. The mood swings. The hostility and even violence. Even from the gentlest person in the world. You lose the person you love. And you are left with the shell... And you are expected to go on loving them even when they are no longer there. You are supposed to be loyal. It’s not that other people expect it. It’s that you expect it of yourself. And you long for it to be over soon. ↗

— Alice LaPlante

#turn-of-mind #change

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet. ↗

— Patti Davis

#aware #awareness #because #claiming #early

Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

#heroes

You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are." "I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you." "What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?" "Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me. ↗

— Lisa Genova

#early-onset-alzheimer-s #mother-daughter #women #beauty

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alone #alzheimer #brave #cancer #disease

This is the true wine of astonishment: "We are not over when we think we are. ↗

— Alice Walker

#alzheimer-s #age

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#chance #love #nicholas #nicholas-sparks #sparks

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#insanity #parents #tragedy #faith

I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#bit #getting #i #i think #just