Quotes by : Anne Michaels

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

Misty is the color of rain on a window.

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

The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults.....

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

All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.

Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings we read ancient weather—storms, sunlight,....

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

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something....

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears....