15 Quotes by Michael Christie

What is raising a child except lying? It begins with the first shhhh... everything is going to be... and only gets worse from there.

Being brave is never easy. That’s why it’s good for you.

Watching the people you love get hurt is part of the deal.

How easy it is for life to become tiny. How cleanly the world falls away. The subway platform in Toronto. That was the first. Will was a toddler then. Even today, “safe” in her bedroom, Diane still couldn’t summon the incident in her mind without panic spreading in her like laughter in a crowd. She knew she’d brushed against true madness that day because it was huge and blunt and screaming.

The boy stepped Outside, and he did not die.

How intimately a book is related to the tree and it’s rings, she thinks. The layers of time, preserved, for all to examine.