Book 33: Blue Nights

What greater grief can there be for mortals than to see their children dead. ~Euripedes



Sometimes I wondered why I was torturing myself by reading this book. It hurt, with a heaviness in the chest, to read. Oh, the thought of losing one's children. I kept reading because Didion expressed thoughts about parenting that I have not read elsewhere but can often relate to: that we never feel like we are successfully parenting, that sometimes we put barriers up between ourselves and our children to keep them at a bit of a distance.