Mikaela

“When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.”
― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

“Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.”
― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

“Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings we read ancient weather—storms, sunlight, and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history, which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.”
― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

“I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.”
― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces