There is something very easy about women’s friendships that you don’t see as often with men. We all know examples of this, when women will just call each other up or drop a line, not with anything specific to say. Laurie Graham Read Quote
My husband is stricken with dementia, and it’s a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago. Laurie Graham Read Quote
I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you’ll sit still and behave until I’ve eaten mine. Laurie Graham Read Quote
Sundown is often the worst time of day for people with dementia. They can become restless and difficult. Laurie Graham Read Quote
Even professional, paid carers aren’t always models of saintly behaviour – and they know they can knock off at the end of their shift to go home, take an uninterrupted shower, and have a normal conversation with someone. Laurie Graham Read Quote
I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do. Laurie Graham Read Quote
My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn’t. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it’s important not to give them false expectations. Laurie Graham Read Quote
I’m thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too. Laurie Graham Read Quote
Childhood doesn’t have to be perfect, and children don’t have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn’t materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity. Laurie Graham Read Quote
In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again. Laurie Graham Read Quote
