Anne Michaels: Moment

Anne Michaels is Poet and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on moment.

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“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief… is the weight of a sleeping child.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

Love , Death , Sleep , Loss

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

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

Life

“But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

World , Time