One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they’re crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don’t make sense. Joan Didion Read Quote
I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don’t believe that anyone is looking out for me personally. Joan Didion Read Quote
I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I’ve already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That’s very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. Joan Didion Read Quote
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. Joan Didion Read Quote
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me – how really tenuous our sanity is. Joan Didion Read Quote
All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don’t do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it’s very different to have the responsibility of a child. Joan Didion Read Quote
Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there’s always some drive in it that is entirely personal – even if you don’t know it while you’re doing it. Joan Didion Read Quote
Strength is one of those things you’re supposed to have. You don’t feel that you have it at the time you’re going through it. Joan Didion Read Quote
