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“i know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. i also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. let them become the photograph on the table. let them become the name on the trust accounts. let go of them in the water.”

“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.”

“grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.”

“the way i write is who i am, or have become…”

my first joan didion book

i read this during a transitional period of the year and unintentionally during the time of year that she’s writing about

How’s the book? Depressing. Lol title’s a little misleading.