Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. - Joan Didion

"This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning."

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

These people who have lost someone look naked because they think themselves invisible.