Joan Didion: American essayist and novelist, author of The Year of Magical Thinking, 1934 to 2021.
Joan Didion · The source reads: “One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.” · Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), Goodbye to All That
Joan Didion · Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), preface
Joan Didion · The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
Joan Didion · The source reads: “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.” · The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
Joan Didion · The White Album (1979), opening line
Joan Didion · Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), Goodbye to All That
Joan Didion · The source reads: “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.” · The White Album (1979)
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