"The Year of Magical Thinking" Quotes
"The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion is a poignant memoir exploring the author's grief and emotional turmoil following the sudden death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
nonfiction | 227 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
We are not idealized wild things. 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.
Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.
I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.
The fear is not for what has been lost, but for what might be lost.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
I want to scream. I want to shout. I want to cry. I want to die.
For the first time I was afraid not only of dying but of living.
The craziness is receding but no clarity is taking its place.
The way I write is who I am, or have become, yet this is not the way I write.
