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The Year of Magical Thinking

From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever

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“I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Trust, Love, Fate, Destiny

“I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Trust

“Time is the school in which we learn.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Time, Life, Learning, Moving Forward

“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Death, Grief, Mourning, Pain

“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Change, Life, Moving On, Grief

“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Grief, Loss, Pain, Death, Living

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Grief, Loss, Love, Missing Someone, Pain

“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Loss, Coping With Death, Losing A Loved One, After Death

“People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their own faces. I have noticed it on my face and I notice it now on others. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness. It is the look of someone who walks from…”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Loss, Coping With Death, Losing A Loved One, After Death

“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Loss, Coping With Death, Losing A Loved One, After Death

“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.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Loss, Coping With Death, Losing A Loved One, After Death

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Loss, Coping With Death, Losing A Loved One, After Death

“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Emptiness, Loss, Love, Life

“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Change, Loss, Heartbreak