Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces Quotes
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.
Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.
To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?
It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.
Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time