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The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play QUOTES

The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play QUOTES

1 " This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you.
And it will happen to you. The details will be different, but it will happen to you.
That's what I'm here to tell you. "

― Joan Didion , The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play

2 " I think about swimming with him into that cave, about the swell of clear water, the way it changed, the swiftness and power it gained as it narrowed through the rocks at the base of the point.
The tide had to be just right. We had to be in the water at the very moment the tide was right. We could only have done this a half dozen times at most during the two years we lived there but it is what I remember. Each time we did it I was afraid of missing the swell, hanging back, timing it wrong. He never was. You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that. "

― Joan Didion , The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play

3 " Everyone was in scrubs. I noticed one man who was not in scrubs. “Is this the wife,” he said to the driver. Then he looked at me. “I'm your social worker.” And I guess that was when I knew.
That's something else to remember. If they give you a social worker, you're in trouble. "

― Joan Didion , The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play