Anne Michaels Quotes
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True hope is severed from expectation.
— 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
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
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
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
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
Love permeates everything, the world is saturated with it, or is emptied of it. Always this beautiful or this bereft.
— 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
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 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
