Fugitive pieces, Anne Michaels
Did anyone else who read this book feel the need to write down some of the 'special sentences' as I call them?
Here are the ones that struck a chord with me:
"Sometimes I can't look you in the eye; you're like a building that's burned out inside, with the outer walls still standing."
"I felt compassion for the stars themselves. Aching towards us for milennia though we are blind to their signals until it's too late, starlight only the white breath of an old cry."
"History is amoral: events occured. But memory is moral; what we consciously remember is what our conscience remembers."
"But at what moment does wood become stone, peat become coal, limestone become marble? The gradual instant."
"Silence: The response to both emptiness and fulness."
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