"NOTHING APPLIES, I print with the magnetized IBM pencil. What does apply, they ask later, as if the word "nothing" were ambiguous, open to interpret… - Joan Didion

I did not want to finish the year because I know that as the days pass, as January becomes February and February becomes summer, certain things will happen.

Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.

We 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.