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Joan Didion · 2011
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What this book knows
Grief for a lost child reveals how memory, aging, and love collapse into a single unendurable brightness.
grief
She wove white stephanotis into the thick braid that hung down her back. 'Let's do it,' she whispered.
BLNT-RC-003There was now no way to avoid knowing it. There would now be no way to pretend to myself that the spirit of the AIG founders would protect her.
BLNT-RC-068Memories are not solace. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone.
BLNT-RC-028mortality
What does it cost to lose those weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others? Can you evade the dying of the brightness?
BLNT-RC-064In all of those intensive care units there were the same blue-and-white printed curtains, the same sounds, the same alarms.
BLNT-RC-008self-and-identity
Why did I feel so sharp a sense of betrayal when I exchanged my California driver's license for one issued by New York?
BLNT-RC-0056 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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