"Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is."
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"There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them."
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"I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person."
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"People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love."
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"The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food."
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"The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this."
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"Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along."
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"it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why."
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"Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood."
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"I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left."
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"America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us."
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"Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it."
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"I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change."
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"I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner."
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"I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that they're losing awareness, and you see them struggling."
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"You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself."
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"I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now."
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"I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success."
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"My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere."
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"I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple."
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