"None of us wants to be reminded that……" — Laurie Graham
"None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common."
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23 Quotes by Laurie Graham
Laurie Graham has 23 quotes on this site.
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Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In…
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The wheels of publishing never slow down.
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Not so very long ago, certainly well into the Thirties, a lady companion was a normal feature of life for…
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Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.
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I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation…
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My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices…
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My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as…
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I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue,…
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Sundown is often the worst time of day for people with dementia. They can become restless and difficult.
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I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.
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The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance…
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In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.
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