Quotes by : Anne Michaels

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

Misty is the color of rain on a window.

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

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

When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside....

There was currant toast squishy with butter, caramel-marshmallow squares, strawberry boats oozing custard,....

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough....

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

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

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