Katie

“Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.”
― John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back

“When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.
Wrong, I want to say.
In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.
In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights