Quotes from the World for Sunday 12/29/MXIII

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 he remakes it in his own image.

Joan Didion
Joan Didion (b. 1934), U.S. essayist. “In the Islands,” The White Album (1979).