121 Quotes by Anne Michaels

The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults. Each island represented a victory and a defeat: it had either pulled itself free or pulled too hard and found itself alone. Later, as these islands grew older, they turned their misfortune into virtue, learned to accept their cragginess, their misshapen coasts, ragged where they'd been torn. They acquired grace.

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.

We must not forget what it means to be in love with another human being, Lucjan had said. For this, once lost, can no longer be imagined.

Grief strikes where love struck first.

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

Minky, the littlest cat, look as if she stepped in snow when she was a kitten and the snow never melted. She is all black except for her white paws and the spots on her head and tail where the snow didn't melt either.

Taffy is the color of toast and butter.

I learned to tolerate images rising in me like bruises.

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