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Anne Michaels Quote: “The winter street is a salt cave. The snow has stopped falling and it’s very cold. The cold is spectacular, penetrating. The street has been silenced, a theatre of whiteness, drifts like frozen waves. Crystals glisten under the streetlights.”

51. “The winter street is a salt cave. The snow has stopped falling and it’s very cold. The cold is spectacular, penetrating. The street has been silenced, a theatre of whiteness, drifts like frozen waves. Crystals glisten under the streetlights.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “There was currant toast squishy with butter, caramel-marshmallow squares, strawberry boats oozing custard, chocolate exclairs that exploded with cream when the cats bit into them with their little white teeth and – a special treat for Pleasant – a pie made from thick slices of Bramley apple, with just the right amount of tangy in the tangy-sweet.”

52. “There was currant toast squishy with butter, caramel-marshmallow squares, strawberry boats oozing custard, chocolate exclairs that exploded with cream when the cats bit into them with their little white teeth and – a special treat for Pleasant – a pie made from thick slices of Bramley apple, with just the right amount of tangy in the tangy-sweet.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “Nothing erases the immoral act. Not forgiveness. Not confession. And even if the act could be forgiven, no one could bear the responsibility of forgiveness on behalf of the dead. Not act of violence is ever resolved when the one who can forgive can no longer speak; there is only silence.”

53. “Nothing erases the immoral act. Not forgiveness. Not confession. And even if the act could be forgiven, no one could bear the responsibility of forgiveness on behalf of the dead. Not act of violence is ever resolved when the one who can forgive can no longer speak; there is only silence.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “The tombstones smashed in Hebrew cemeteries and plundered for Polish sidewalks; today bored citizens, staring at their feet while waiting for a bus, can still read the inscriptions.”

54. “The tombstones smashed in Hebrew cemeteries and plundered for Polish sidewalks; today bored citizens, staring at their feet while waiting for a bus, can still read the inscriptions.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “True hope is severed from expectation.”

55. “True hope is severed from expectation.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “We must not forget what it means to be in love with another human being, Lucjan had said. For this, once lost, can no longer be imagined.”

56. “We must not forget what it means to be in love with another human being, Lucjan had said. For this, once lost, can no longer be imagined.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “What is a man,” said Athos, “who has no landscape? Nothing but mirrors and tides.”

57. “What is a man,” said Athos, “who has no landscape? Nothing but mirrors and tides.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “Sometimes I can’t look you in the eye; you’re like a building that’s burned out inside, with the outer wall still standing.”

58. “Sometimes I can’t look you in the eye; you’re like a building that’s burned out inside, with the outer wall still standing.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “When I woke, my anguish was specific: the possibility that it was as painful for them to be remembered as it was for me to remember them; that I was haunting my parents and Bella with my calling, startling them awake in their black beds.”

59. “When I woke, my anguish was specific: the possibility that it was as painful for them to be remembered as it was for me to remember them; that I was haunting my parents and Bella with my calling, startling them awake in their black beds.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “They waited until I was asleep, then roused themselves, exhausted as swimmers, grey between the empty trees. Their hair in tufts, open sores where ears used to be, grubs twisting from their chests. The grotesque remains of incomplete lives, the embodied complexities of desires eternally denied.”

60. “They waited until I was asleep, then roused themselves, exhausted as swimmers, grey between the empty trees. Their hair in tufts, open sores where ears used to be, grubs twisting from their chests. The grotesque remains of incomplete lives, the embodied complexities of desires eternally denied.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “Grief strikes where love struck first.”

61. “Grief strikes where love struck first.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “I could easily imagine carrying a favoured item to the ends of the earth, if only to help believe I’d see its beloved owner again.”

62. “I could easily imagine carrying a favoured item to the ends of the earth, if only to help believe I’d see its beloved owner again.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “Destruction doesn’t create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence.”

63. “Destruction doesn’t create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “Sometimes, all you must do is reach out your hand for something wonderful to happen.”

64. “Sometimes, all you must do is reach out your hand for something wonderful to happen.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “History is the love that enters us through death.”

65. “History is the love that enters us through death.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults. Each island represented a victory and a defeat: it had either pulled itself free or pulled too hard and found itself alone. Later, as these islands grew older, they turned their misfortune into virtue, learned to accept their cragginess, their misshapen coasts, ragged where they’d been torn. They acquired grace.”

66. “The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults. Each island represented a victory and a defeat: it had either pulled itself free or pulled too hard and found itself alone. Later, as these islands grew older, they turned their misfortune into virtue, learned to accept their cragginess, their misshapen coasts, ragged where they’d been torn. They acquired grace.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “Somewhere a man answers courage with courage.”

67. “Somewhere a man answers courage with courage.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “Sometimes the body experiences a revelation because it has abandoned every other possibility.”

68. “Sometimes the body experiences a revelation because it has abandoned every other possibility.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “We belong where love finds us.”

69. “We belong where love finds us.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “History is amoral: events occurred. But memory is moral; what we consciously remember is what our conscience remembers. History is the Totenbuch, The Book of the Dead, kept by the administrators of the camps. Memory is the Memorbucher, the names of those to be mourned, read aloud in the synagogue.”

70. “History is amoral: events occurred. But memory is moral; what we consciously remember is what our conscience remembers. History is the Totenbuch, The Book of the Dead, kept by the administrators of the camps. Memory is the Memorbucher, the names of those to be mourned, read aloud in the synagogue.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “My love for my family has grown for years in decay-fed soil, unwashed root pulled suddenly from the ground. Bulbous as a beet, a huge eye under a lid of earth. Scoop out the eye, blind the earth.”

71. “My love for my family has grown for years in decay-fed soil, unwashed root pulled suddenly from the ground. Bulbous as a beet, a huge eye under a lid of earth. Scoop out the eye, blind the earth.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “I learned to tolerate images rising in me like bruises.”

72. “I learned to tolerate images rising in me like bruises.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “We made our paints from the bones of the animals we painted. No image forgets this origin.”

73. “We made our paints from the bones of the animals we painted. No image forgets this origin.”

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Anne Michaels Quote: “A place so empty it was not even haunted.”

74. “A place so empty it was not even haunted.”

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