The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~ Joan Didion

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
~ Joan Didion

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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that she remakes it in his own image.
~ Joan Didion