InspiringQuotes

Joan Didion Quotes:

Ocupation: Author

Life: b. December 5, 1934

Birthday: December 5

Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the blue. I myself placed her ashes in the wall. I myself saw the cathedral doors locked at six. I know what it is I am now experiencing. I know what the frailty is, I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may see nothing still to be lost. Yet there is no day in her life on which I do not see her.

- Joan Didion

source: Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.134, Knopf

topic: Wall, Night, Blue, Locked Doors, Lost You

Related Authors

Authors starting with Letter

Topics starting with Letter