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We all remember what we need to remember.
-Joan Didion

Apparently.
I have not been the witness I wanted to be.
-JD

After a whole there were no more frosts at night and the wild carrot came out along all the roads and every night ended badly. -JD

Charlotte tried to focus on the tight pink balls of peony blossom..-JD

Her skin burned in the wind and in the odd glare off the opaque clouded sea and after the first week she did not go outside.

Twice a year the sun is exactly vertical, and nothing casts a shadow.

She did not have a bag, she did not have an aspirin, she did not have a toothbrush.



-JD

I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed. -JD

I think I have never known anyone who led quite so unexamined life. -JD

"Don't let me keep you. Somebody who loves you I'd dying, your only child is lost, I'm asking for one more favor, and you've got a lunch date."
-JD