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“I could make promises to myself into other people, and there would be all the time the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of it would count.”

Joan Didion invented california

“Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and just as the reliably, long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, it’s unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.”

“ children who have never been told, as I was told, that golden lads and girls must all as chimney sweepers come to dust.”

“ praying as if the rain that it would happen: ’ let it come, clear the rot and the stench and the stink, let it come for all of everywhere, just so it comes and the world stands clear in the white dead dawn.”

“ demand to know who deserted them who betrayed them who’s going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike forget what we whispered and what we screamed forget who we were.”

“and maybe no one else felt the ground hardening and summer already dead as we pretended to bask in it”

“keepers of private notebooks are different breeds altogether, lonely and resistant rearranges of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss”