Patti Davis

“Secrets are the enemy of trust, and trust is the foundation of a family.”

“It's a very lonely illness. You feel like you're the only one in the world who has it.”

“My father taught me that you can disagree with someone and still be friends. You can have a different political point of view and still have a relationship.”

“The past is a character in all of our lives. It's a character that has a lot to say.”

“Alzheimer's is a disease that is a thief. It steals memories, it steals dignity, it steals the person you knew.”

“Grief is a ghost that can't be put to rest, a scar that never fades.”

“Writing is my way of making sense of the world, of the chaos, of the beauty.”

“There are conversations that you are always having in your head, and you are the only one in the conversation.”

“Forgiveness is a story you tell yourself. It's not something that just happens.”

“We are all haunted by the ghosts of our past. The trick is to learn how to live with them.”

“Silence is a moving, breathing thing. It has a presence. It's not an absence of sound; it's a sound in itself.”