When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.


Blue Nights (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307700513

Joan Didion Quotes

When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend...

When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend...

When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend...

When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend...