joan didion

“ We tell ourselves stories in order to live. ”

“ Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. ”

“ You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity. ”

“ Do not whine. Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. ”

“ That no one dies of migraine seems to someone deep in an attack as an ambiguous blessing. ”

“ To the average observer I would have appeared to fully understand that death was irreversible. ”

“ Waiting in the line seemed the constructive thing to do. Waiting in the line said that there was still time to deal with this. ”

“ Character the willingness to accept responsibility for ones own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ”

“ As time goes by I think that men who were unable to make choices were more right than those who made them. ”

“ I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues. ”