“They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and watched.” Young AdultYaYoung Adult FictionAlzheimers Book:The Book of Broken Hearts Source: The Book of Broken Hearts
“But I knew he wouldn't kiss me. Not tonight. Not like this. There was too much between us now, all the words and near misses. All the potential, the alternate futures that would stretch out before us in an unending spiral, all built on what happened in this moment. I held his fiery gaze and remembered the five-oh, the half-and-half, the promises I'd whispered to myself in the dawn light. I might lose all my memories one day, but that wouldn't keep me from making them.” Young AdultYoung Adult FictionAlzheimers Book:The Book of Broken Hearts Source: The Book of Broken Hearts