“My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes -- eyes that had not opened for many, many days -- and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.”
“[Acknowledging that the death of a former president of Reagan's stature would be] a big unwieldy one -- a world event, ... grab onto the massive grief around us and go home at night to the shape of the grief inside us.”