“We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“We wished them happiness, we wished them health, we wished them love and luck and beautiful children. On that wedding day, July… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“She hoped that although he could not hear her she could somehow imprint her ordinary love upon his memory through all eternity,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“…quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean "love" in any colloquial way, I mean that I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems;… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
