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Anne Michaels quotes: True hope is severed from expectation.

True hope is severed from expectation.

Anne Michaels quotes: To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Anne Michaels quotes: the rain that held the lightthat fell, the rain that fell,the light that held

the rain that held the light
that fell, the rain that fell,
the light that held

Anne Michaels quotes: The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

Anne Michaels quotes: Perhaps we painted on our own skin, with ochre and charcoal, long before we painted on stone.

Perhaps we painted on our own skin, with ochre and charcoal, long before we painted on stone.

Anne Michaels quotes: I think there are all kinds of aspects to reality, to domestic reality, and why don't we just talk about them all?

I think there are all kinds of aspects to reality, to domestic reality, and why don't we just talk about them all?

Anne Michaels quotes: I could easily imagine carrying a favoured item to the ends of the earth, if only to help believe I'd see its beloved owner again.

I could easily imagine carrying a favoured item to the ends of the earth, if only to help believe I'd see its beloved owner again.

Anne Michaels quotes: I began the piling of words,to dig myself outto dare myself

I began the piling of words,
to dig myself out
to dare myself

Anne Michaels quotes: Time is a blind guide.

Time is a blind guide.

Anne Michaels quotes: Misty is the color of rain on a window.

Misty is the color of rain on a window.

Anne Michaels quotes: To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

Anne Michaels quotes: What is a man," said Athos, "who has no landscape? Nothing but mirrors and tides.

What is a man," said Athos, "who has no landscape? Nothing but mirrors and tides.

Anne Michaels quotes: Write to save yourself,' Athos said, 'and someday you'll write because you've been saved.

Write to save yourself,' Athos said, 'and someday you'll write because you've been saved.

Anne Michaels quotes: When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

Anne Michaels quotes: Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence.

Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence.

Anne Michaels quotes: the dead lose every sense except hearing.

the dead lose every sense except hearing.

Anne Michaels quotes: The shawl's bottom edge the clearest blue, as if it has been dipped in the sea. The blue of a glance.

The shawl's bottom edge the clearest blue, as if it has been dipped in the sea. The blue of a glance.

Anne Michaels quotes: I see that I must give what I most need.

I see that I must give what I most need.

Anne Michaels quotes: Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Anne Michaels quotes: Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Anne Michaels quotes: Our bodies surround what has always been there

Our bodies surround what has always been there

Anne Michaels quotes: If the truth is not in the face, then where is it? In the hands! In the hands.

If the truth is not in the face, then where is it? In the hands! In the hands.

Anne Michaels quotes: It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Anne Michaels quotes: Long after you've forgotten someone's voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

Long after you've forgotten someone's voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

Anne Michaels quotes: Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

Anne Michaels quotes: Miss Petitfour loved the little pictures, each in its own serrated frame and each seeming to tell it's own little story.

Miss Petitfour loved the little pictures, each in its own serrated frame and each seeming to tell it's own little story.

Anne Michaels quotes: Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

Anne Michaels quotes: I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

Anne Michaels quotes: Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

Anne Michaels quotes: Sometimes I can't look you in the eye; you're like a building that's burned out inside, with the outer wall still standing.

Sometimes I can't look you in the eye; you're like a building that's burned out inside, with the outer wall still standing.

Anne Michaels quotes: Sometimes, all you must do is reach out your hand for something wonderful to happen.

Sometimes, all you must do is reach out your hand for something wonderful to happen.

Anne Michaels quotes: I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

Anne Michaels quotes: Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Anne Michaels quotes: Love permeates everything, the world is saturated with it, or is emptied of it. Always this beautiful or this bereft.

Love permeates everything, the world is saturated with it, or is emptied of it. Always this beautiful or this bereft.

Anne Michaels quotes: If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Anne Michaels quotes: History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

Anne Michaels quotes: Everything in this world is what has been left behind.

Everything in this world is what has been left behind.

Anne Michaels quotes: There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.

There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.

Anne Michaels quotes: I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

Anne Michaels quotes: Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

Anne Michaels quotes: Taffy is the color of toast and butter.

Taffy is the color of toast and butter.

Anne Michaels quotes: Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

Anne Michaels quotes: Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

Anne Michaels quotes: Sometimes things work out differently than you expect, and sometimes that's when the best things happen.

Sometimes things work out differently than you expect, and sometimes that's when the best things happen.

Anne Michaels quotes: The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam

Anne Michaels quotes: The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

Anne Michaels quotes: I can't save a boy from a burning building. Instead he must save me from the attempt; he must jump to earth.

I can't save a boy from a burning building. Instead he must save me from the attempt; he must jump to earth.