Wendy Mitchell > Quotes

“That’s what Alzheimer’s does: it’s a thief in the night, stealing precious pictures from our lives while we sleep.”
― Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know

“Logos doesn't always have to win a day.”
― Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir

“Don’t be fooled into thinking that a diagnosis of dementia is just for one person. Yes, the disease might be inside our brains, but the diagnosis will not change one life: it will change all of those around us.”
― Wendy Mitchell, What I Wish People Knew About Dementia

“We see, too, how Christopher is at a stage in his disease where he can't remember the word for moon, but it doesn't matter, he knows it's something beautiful in the sky, isn't that enough?”
― Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir

“It’s sad when the things you continue to do make people question whether you have dementia. They’re not inside my brain to hear or see the hallucinations. Would it make them feel better to see me on a foggy day, the type where I curl up under my duvet and hide away from the world? Would that make the disease fit better into the pigeonhole they’ve allocated it?”
― Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know

“Guilt is hard to live with, but it exists to help us put things right while we still have the chance.”
― Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir

“Logic doesn't always have to win a day”
― Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir