Famous Anne Michaels Quotes

  • It’s not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent. – Anne Michaels

    It’s not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.– Anne Michaels

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

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

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

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

  • All grief, anyone’s grief…is the weight of a sleeping child. – Anne Michaels

    All grief, anyone’s grief…is the weight of a sleeping child.– Anne Michaels

  • Any given moment-”no matter how casual, how ordinary-”is poised, full of gaping life. – Anne Michaels

    Any given moment-”no matter how casual, how ordinary-”is poised, full of gaping life.– Anne Michaels

  • Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. – Anne Michaels

    Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.– Anne Michaels

  • Hold a book in your hand and you’re a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. – Anne Michaels

    Hold a book in your hand and you’re a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.– Anne Michaels