Amy Jo

“Her body might still be here, but she is gone and she has been for a very long time. I am a full-time caregiver to someone who barely knows my name. I will not apologize for what I have to do to make it so I can wake up in the morning to the reality I’m forced to endure. My life is a permanent, intolerable unhappiness. And I pray you never know what that’s like.”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

“Even if it is your fault, I will love you anyway.’ ”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk

“Do I tell him who she used to be? Who she still thinks she is because she can’t remember she’s not anymore? Or do I tell him what she is now? You know how when someone dies, all anyone cares about is how? Somehow the moment that takes them out is more interesting than decades worth of life and accomplishments and living. I hated it. I didn’t want Mom’s dementia to be that for her. The summary of everything she’s done and everything she means to me, reduced to her disease. Because she’s more than that and she always will be.”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

“Maybe that’s the last thing we forget. Or we never forget it at all. Not really. We lose the words to say it. We lose the ability to show it. But we never lose the ability to feel it or recognize it when we see it. Love is the brightest color in a gray world.”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me