Lisa Michaels > Quotes

“There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind -- a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own.”
― Lisa Michaels, Split: A Counterculture Childhood – A Reminiscence of Activism, Communes, and Life in 1970s California

“When she breathed in the sage and dust and tang of orange peel, it smelled to her like deliverance.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“I believed, at twenty-two, that I had to force myself toward whatever filled me with dread, and along the way I'd lost the idea that fear was a useful gauge of risk.”
― Lisa Michaels

“Wind blew down the canyon like breath through a straw, pushing the scow forward and pleating the river ahead of them.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“If I felt at times undersupervised, it was this same freedom that stands out as one of the pleasures of my childhood”
― Lisa Michaels

“When they woke on the morning of November 6, the sky was fired a pale blue, the air soft and nearly motionless.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“Her body turned from side to side—a jewelry-box ballerina, stirred by the wash.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“you stood still.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“When she turned forward again, white arms of froth reached up from the rapid.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“12018Back then, the journey was the thing”
― Lisa Michaels

“You could have been shanghaied down at the docks.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“Even a good marriage has its loneliness, she thought,”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“a tight ocher passageway,”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“Alison went to the Waldorf school, and they had a whole classroom hour devoted to tweeting on those plastic flutes. They also spent a lot of time building birdhouses, singing along to Peter, Paul, and Mary, and making God's eyes out of twigs and yarn. By the second grade, Alison has still barely heard of arithmetic.”
― Lisa Michaels

“She had spent that summer and early fall fancying herself a character in a Willa Cather novel, so caught up in the symbolic bounty of the harvest”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“Perhaps because the camera reserved judgment.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“chicken pot pie, the crust shattering under the fork,”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“four broken eggshells, each half nested carefully in the other.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“her white blouse with the little buttons bo-peeping down the front.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“Emily Dickinson calls it ‘truth told slant,”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“If I felt at times undersuprvised, it was this same freedom that stands out as one of the pleasures of my childhood.”
― Lisa Michaels

“1809If I felt at times under-supervised, it was this same freedom that stands out as one of the pleasures of my childhood.”
― Lisa Michaels

“Death didn’t miss you because”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition