Choking on quotes

‘we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not’

‘we forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget’

‘innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself’

‘the apparently bottomless gulf, between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love’

‘keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss’


Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem