💬 Finished reading: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 📚
“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.” — Philippe Ariès, quoted by Joan Didion
“You can love more than one person — of course you can. But marriage is something different. Marriage is memory, marriage is time… Marriage is also, paradoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John’s eyes. I did not age.”
“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.”