“I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'” — Pat Summitt Quote

“I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'”

“Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.”

“Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.”

“There are so many people getting dementia. It is like an epidemic now. It is a terrible disease because once you get it, your life changes completely.”

“Although my father's mother, Nancy, has dementia, and her experiences gave me ideas for some of the scenes in the book, it was my mother's mother, Vera, who most influenced the character of Maud. Vera died in 2008, before I'd gotten very far into writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing,' but her voice is very like Maud's.”

“Fifty million Americans have dementia and other brain illnesses. To gather together the minds that exist and see how we can tackle these ailments together, that is the work that is in front of us: to have a map of the human brain, an understanding of the roadways, and an understanding of the traffic on the roadways.”