Lisa Genova Quotes

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.

Take what you've learned and love someone again. Find someone to love and love without condition. This is why we're all here.

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.

At some point, there would simply be no point.

Alice: I miss myself. John: I miss you too, Ali, so much.

But I am not what I say or what I do or what I remember. I am fundamentally more than that.

In the ladies' room, Alice studied her image in the mirror. The reflected older woman's face didn't quite match the picture that she had of herself in her mind's eye." p 35

Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

It's the closest place to nowhere that she can think of. And nowhere is exactly where she wants to be today.

Why? What's wrong with being emotional about this? why is that a negative thing? Why isn't the emotional decision the right decision?" asked the woman who wasn't crying.

Prioritizing hurt, a reminder that the clock was ticking, that some things would be left undone.