Will

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

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
― Joan Didion

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect