Quotes from Joan Didion, Blue Nights

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.