COLLECTED & CONSIDERED
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Cover of Blue Nights

Blue Nights

by Joan Didion

Biography & MemoirFiction, Stories & PoetryDeath, Grief & Meaning

Added to the collectionSeptember 22, 2025

Selected Passages

Selected passages

People who are no longer married. I find many mass cards from the funerals of people whose faces I no longer remember. In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here.

As adults we lose memory of the gravity and terrors of childhood.