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True hope is severed from expectation. — Anne Michaels

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

the rain that held the light
that fell, the rain that fell,
the light that held — Anne Michaels

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

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

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

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

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

Time is a blind guide. — Anne Michaels

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

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

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

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

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

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

the dead lose every sense except hearing. — Anne Michaels

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

I see that I must give what I most need. — Anne Michaels

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

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

Our bodies surround what has always been there — Anne Michaels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To live with ghosts requires solitude. - ANNE MICHAELS, Fugitive Pieces — Christopher McDougall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taffy is the color of toast and butter. — Anne Michaels

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

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

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