Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

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  • Fer Silvahas quoted7 years ago
    Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.
  • Lliahas quoted9 years ago
    Life changes fast.
    Life changes in the instant.
    You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
    The question of self-pity.
    You see how early the question of self-pity entered the picture.
  • dannynicolinihas quoted4 years ago
    Life changes fast.
    Life changes in the instant.
    You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
    The question of self-pity
  • utiutshas quoted5 years ago
    You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
    In a heartbeat.
    Or the absence of one.
  • Fer Silvahas quoted7 years ago
    I needed to be alone so that he could come back.
  • Fer Silvahas quoted7 years ago
    Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be.
  • Elena Karhas quotedlast year
    We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.
  • 📕🖋⚜🐍has quotedlast year
    It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it
  • Elena Karhas quotedlast year
    In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information was control.
  • RachiiLovegoodhas quotedlast year
    I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.
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