“We know that someone close to us will die. We might expect to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind.”
More from Joan Didion
“Remember what it is to be me. That is always the point.”
“The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. The fear is for…”
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.”
“I, myself, have always found that if I examine something, it's less scary.”