Quote by Gaiutra Bahadur

“When my grandma moved, she didn’t know anybody. But that was partly due to being in a new place, and partly from her dementia.”

— Jarod Kintz

“It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“The young are not curious about their elders, they just accept them for what they are. But I wish now I could go back…

— Peter May

“I didn't understand her being gone, either. I had seen her fall. Now her part of any conversation would always be unsaid, and the…

— Gordon Dahlquist

“The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.”

— Brooke Hauser

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“She raised her sad blue eyes to mine. "It's going to be so boring here without you. And I'm going to have to deal…

— Shannon Greenland

“Her grandmother experienced them differently, as if they brought her remnants from another time, another life even, which she refused to acknowledge in any…

— Abby Slovin

“Of course she'll move away from me, and likely from here, because she is my daughter, because she is a daughter in the twenty-first…

— Liz Stephens

“She was Grandma Will. That term felt foreign and unfitting to the relationship they had. She wondered if her father had ever called her…

— Pamela Morsi

“She didn’t just disappear from my life—she had the audacity to die on me. And until I get Alzheimer’s, I will never forget it.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The sting of her abandonment had not lessened through the years, and I suspected it would never go away. Occasionally, I could see agony…

— T.J. Forrester