A review by imaginethehours
Still Alice by Lisa Genova

5.0

This book felt real, and it allowed me to connect emotionally with my mother's recent death, though she died of breast cancer and didn't have Alzheimer's or dementia. It also allowed me to connect better with my good friend's situation with her mother having early onset dementia, and their whole family having to manage it for years now.

"My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today didn't matter." -p. 253