Jodi O

“Without memory and rational thought, people who have dementia constantly experience scary and frustrating feelings they are unable to escape from.”
― Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home

“Nostalgia is a way of coping with distress by temporarily escaping the pain of the present. We use it when we need it.”
― AJ Wolfe, Disney Adults: Exploring (and Falling in Love with) a Magical Subculture

“When she looked at him, she didn’t find herself asking what he could do to make her feel good. She found herself asking what she could do to help make Charlie’s life better. This was a first for her, and somehow, she knew it was special.”
― Harold K Armstrong, Awaited: Mystery Death Romance . . . and a Guardian Angel

“It was like Michael is always sprinting away from self-awareness. If he looks back and he sees how pathetic his life is or what people think of him, he’ll get swallowed up. So his whole drive was fleeing from that self-awareness because he just can’t face it.”
― Andy Greene, The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History