“I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: dread, Grief, coping, Pain, Addiction
“However long we postpone it, we eventually lie down alone in that notoriously uncomfortable bed, the one we make ourselves. Whether or not we sleep in it, depends, of course, on whether or not we respect ourselves.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Life
“This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: first lines of books, San Bernardino Valley