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People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.


Melina Kanakaredes

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MELINA MARCHETTA My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To...
MELINA MARCHETTA Guess what?' Fitz said.
'I don't know,' Jude said. 'What? Narnie smiled?' He glanced at her for...
MELINA MARCHETTA What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"I...
MELINA MARCHETTA If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the be...
MELINA MARCHETTA No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I...
MELINA MARCHETTA These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell...
MELINA MARCHETTA Never,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.
MELINA MARCHETTA And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.
MELINA MARCHETTA From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.
MELINA MARCHETTA Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.
MELINA MARCHETTA Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?
MELINA MARCHETTA He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fuck...
MELINA MARCHETTA Hold my hand because I might disappear.
MELINA MARCHETTA One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left beh...
MELINA MARCHETTA We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?
MELINA MARCHETTA This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. H...
MELINA MARCHETTA Stop. Revive. Survive
MELINA MARCHETTA I don't really pay a whole lot of attention to the numbers and the things that bear out during the d...
MELINA KENNEDY From the stage Ben catches my eye. "This is for them, Taylor," he calls out as they begin to play. I...
MELINA MARCHETTA He took her face in his bloody hands. 'I'll come and find you wherever you are. I'll not stop breath...
MELINA MARCHETTA I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. T
rang you over and over again and you woul...
MELINA MARCHETTA I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would nev...
MELINA MARCHETTA I just stare at him. I want to ask him a thousand questions, but I can tell he doesn't want to be as...
MELINA MARCHETTA They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each othe...
MELINA MARCHETTA Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them i...
MELINA MARCHETTA And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.
He wished th...
MELINA MARCHETTA