Joan Didion Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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. Blue Nights

2. Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. Blue Nights

3. I myself have always found that if I examine something, it's less scary. I grew up in the West, and we always had this theory that if you saw - if you kept the snake in you eye line, the snake wasn't going to bite you. And that's kind of way I feel about confronting pain. I want to know where it is.

4. She didn't know the songs," I recall being told that a friend of a friend had said after an attempt to repeat the experience. The Year of Magical Thinking

5. We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know. The Year of Magical Thinking

6. What does it cost to lose these weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others?Can you evade the dying of the brightness?Or do you evade only its warning?Where are you left if you miss the message the blue nights bring?'Have you ever had a moment where everything in your life just stopped?' This was the way that this question was raised by Kris Jenkins, a three-hundred-and-sixty-pound Jets defensive tackle, after he tore, six plays into his tenth NFL season, both his meniscus and his anterior cruciate ligament. 'So fast, but in slow motion? Like all your senses shut down? Like you're watching yourself? Blue Nights