Bibi

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. Until now there had been every urgent reason to obliterate any attention that might otherwise have been paid, banish the thought, bring fresh adrenaline to bear on the crisis of the day.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking