#many of which have suddenly come back to visit me – @anenlighteningellipsis on Tumblr

We are not idealized wild things. We 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.

Joan Didion, from The Year of Magical Thinking

#***#just reread #still reeling #not just from this searing account of grief but from my own multiple griefs #many of which have suddenly come back to visit me #shut up marty #joan didion #the year of magical thinking #grief #mourning #mortality #quotes #to see if there's a pub