"You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of……" — Lisa Genova
"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."
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Lisa Genova
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18 Quotes by Lisa Genova
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Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.
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But I am not what I say or what I do or what I remember. I am fundamentally more than…
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At some point, there would simply be no point.
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She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was…
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Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.
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