Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 19/05/2025When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children 032
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. 070
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. 2268
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearranges of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss. 022
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted. 192
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 07/02/2025The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. 010
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. 1225
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about. And we are all on our own when it comes to keeping those lines open to ourselves: your notebook will never help me, nor mine you. 040
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I 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. 0218
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose. 0184
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 04/01/2025In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. 050
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 28/12/2024I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. #literary 082
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 21/12/2024We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. 030
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024The impulse to write things down is a particularly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. 050
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 17/12/2024In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information was control. 062
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure. 011
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 30/11/2024We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all. #literary 061
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Joan with Quintana, in their house on Franklin Avenue. 050
Joan Didion’s Journal @joandidionsjournal.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Joan Didion visiting Alcatraz prison 030
