Quotes by : Joan Didion

There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them....

And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter....

we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication,....

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

I put the word "diagnosis" in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a "diagnosis" led....

We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed,....

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that....

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but....

People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have....