“I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.”

“Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.”

“I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in my chair and be fed, much less do I want to be handed over to medical professionals.”

“Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.”

“Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?”

“I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.”

“I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.”