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Top 25 Michael Christie Quotes (2025 Update)

Michael Christie Quote: “Take heart, she seems to say. The world has been on the brink of ending before. The dust has always been waiting to swallow us. People have always struggled and suffered. Your poverty is not shameful. It is not a failure of your character. Life, by its very nature, is precarious. And your struggles are never for nothing.”

1. “Take heart, she seems to say. The world has been on the brink of ending before. The dust has always been waiting to swallow us. People have always struggled and suffered. Your poverty is not shameful. It is not a failure of your character. Life, by its very nature, is precarious. And your struggles are never for nothing.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “It’s not a prison if you’ve built it yourself... It’s a fortress.”

2. “It’s not a prison if you’ve built it yourself... It’s a fortress.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Being brave is never easy. That’s why it’s good for you.”

3. “Being brave is never easy. That’s why it’s good for you.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Watching the people you love get hurt is part of the deal.”

4. “Watching the people you love get hurt is part of the deal.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “How easy it is for life to become tiny. How cleanly the world falls away. The subway platform in Toronto. That was the first. Will was a toddler then. Even today, “safe” in her bedroom, Diane still couldn’t summon the incident in her mind without panic spreading in her like laughter in a crowd. She knew she’d brushed against true madness that day because it was huge and blunt and screaming.”

5. “How easy it is for life to become tiny. How cleanly the world falls away. The subway platform in Toronto. That was the first. Will was a toddler then. Even today, “safe” in her bedroom, Diane still couldn’t summon the incident in her mind without panic spreading in her like laughter in a crowd. She knew she’d brushed against true madness that day because it was huge and blunt and screaming.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “How intimately a book is related to the tree and it’s rings, she thinks. The layers of time, preserved, for all to examine.”

6. “How intimately a book is related to the tree and it’s rings, she thinks. The layers of time, preserved, for all to examine.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “What is raising a child except lying? It begins with the first shhhh... everything is going to be... and only gets worse from there.”

7. “What is raising a child except lying? It begins with the first shhhh... everything is going to be... and only gets worse from there.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Those who claim that rage is counter-productive need only consider all the wonderous things that Liam Greenwood has built in his thirty-four years of life to understand that the opposite can always be true: that rage is perhaps the most productive fuel there is.”

8. “Those who claim that rage is counter-productive need only consider all the wonderous things that Liam Greenwood has built in his thirty-four years of life to understand that the opposite can always be true: that rage is perhaps the most productive fuel there is.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “The boy stepped Outside, and he did not die.”

9. “The boy stepped Outside, and he did not die.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “What if a family isn’t a tree at all? What if it’s more like a forest? A collection of individuals, pooling their resources by intertwined roots, sheltering each other from wind and weather and drought... what are families other than fictions? Stories told about a particular cluster of people for a particular reason. And like all stories, families are not born, they’re invented. Pieced together from love and lies and nothing else.”

10. “What if a family isn’t a tree at all? What if it’s more like a forest? A collection of individuals, pooling their resources by intertwined roots, sheltering each other from wind and weather and drought... what are families other than fictions? Stories told about a particular cluster of people for a particular reason. And like all stories, families are not born, they’re invented. Pieced together from love and lies and nothing else.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Because there’s nothing like poverty to teach you just how much of a luxury integrity truly is.”

11. “Because there’s nothing like poverty to teach you just how much of a luxury integrity truly is.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “A person seldom knows they’re starved for something until they get a taste of it.”

12. “A person seldom knows they’re starved for something until they get a taste of it.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “What if a family isn’t a tree at all? Jake thinks as they walk in silence. What if it’s more like a forest? A collection of individuals pooling their resources through intertwined roots, sheltering one another from wind and weather and drought.”

13. “What if a family isn’t a tree at all? Jake thinks as they walk in silence. What if it’s more like a forest? A collection of individuals pooling their resources through intertwined roots, sheltering one another from wind and weather and drought.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Why is it that people are engineered to live just long enough to pile up a lifetime of mistakes, but not long enough to fix them? If only we were like trees... If only we had centuries. Maybe then there’d be time enough for us to mend all the harm we have done.”

14. “Why is it that people are engineered to live just long enough to pile up a lifetime of mistakes, but not long enough to fix them? If only we were like trees... If only we had centuries. Maybe then there’d be time enough for us to mend all the harm we have done.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Time, Liam has learned, is not an arrow. Neither is it a road. It goes in no particular direction. It simply accumulates – in the body, in the world – like wood does. Layer upon layer. Light then dark. Each one dependent upon the last.”

15. “Time, Liam has learned, is not an arrow. Neither is it a road. It goes in no particular direction. It simply accumulates – in the body, in the world – like wood does. Layer upon layer. Light then dark. Each one dependent upon the last.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Surfers rode waves, which were already beautiful, but skateboarders made this beautiful: the ugly, discarded nooks and leftovers of a place, the abandoned, unused architecture that people preferred to ignore. Beneath their wheels, these dead places became sites of wonder.”

16. “Surfers rode waves, which were already beautiful, but skateboarders made this beautiful: the ugly, discarded nooks and leftovers of a place, the abandoned, unused architecture that people preferred to ignore. Beneath their wheels, these dead places became sites of wonder.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “When we depend less on industrially produced food and live in the world’s quiet spaces,” she says, quoting something she read in the Whole Earth Catalog, her mouth still turbo-charged by the pills, “our bodies become vigorous. We discover the serenity of living in sync with the rhythms of the Earth. We cease oppressing one another.”

17. “When we depend less on industrially produced food and live in the world’s quiet spaces,” she says, quoting something she read in the Whole Earth Catalog, her mouth still turbo-charged by the pills, “our bodies become vigorous. We discover the serenity of living in sync with the rhythms of the Earth. We cease oppressing one another.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “If it’s true that the United States was born of slavery and revolutionary justice... then surely her own country was born of a cruel, grasping indifference to its indigenous peoples and the natural world. We who rip our the Earth’s most irreplaceable resources, sell them cheaply to anyone with a nickel in their pocket, then wake up and do it all over again – that could well serve as the Greenwood motto, and perhaps even for her nation itself.”

18. “If it’s true that the United States was born of slavery and revolutionary justice... then surely her own country was born of a cruel, grasping indifference to its indigenous peoples and the natural world. We who rip our the Earth’s most irreplaceable resources, sell them cheaply to anyone with a nickel in their pocket, then wake up and do it all over again – that could well serve as the Greenwood motto, and perhaps even for her nation itself.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Every tree is held up by its own history, the very bones of its ancestors... Jake has gained a new awareness of how her own life is being held up by unseen layers, girded by lives that come before her own. And by a series of crimes and miracles, accidents and choices, sacrifices and mistakes, all of which have landed her in this particular body and delivered her to this day.”

19. “Every tree is held up by its own history, the very bones of its ancestors... Jake has gained a new awareness of how her own life is being held up by unseen layers, girded by lives that come before her own. And by a series of crimes and miracles, accidents and choices, sacrifices and mistakes, all of which have landed her in this particular body and delivered her to this day.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “I do not want you because you are mine. I want you because I am yours.”

20. “I do not want you because you are mine. I want you because I am yours.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Jake leaves unmentioned the fact that she’d long ago filed motherhood away in the locked cupboard that contains everything that the Withering has made impossible for people like her: her own home, a steady relationship, a research lab, a tenured teaching position. And even if she did have the money, why would anyone willingly bring a child into such a fallen, desolate world? Children require hope and prosperity as trees require light and water, and Jake Greenwood is all tapped out of both.”

21. “Jake leaves unmentioned the fact that she’d long ago filed motherhood away in the locked cupboard that contains everything that the Withering has made impossible for people like her: her own home, a steady relationship, a research lab, a tenured teaching position. And even if she did have the money, why would anyone willingly bring a child into such a fallen, desolate world? Children require hope and prosperity as trees require light and water, and Jake Greenwood is all tapped out of both.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbeat thump of drums; the mournful wail of violins – we love them because they sound like us.”

22. “Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbeat thump of drums; the mournful wail of violins – we love them because they sound like us.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Preachers and politicians often contend that hardship knits us together. That some great calamity like the Crash brings out the best and most noble in us. Yet in his long, tortured, and grasping life, Harvey Bennett Lomax will have witnessed only the opposite. In his experience, the harder things get, the worse we treat one another. And the worst things we’ll ever do, we save for our families.”

23. “Preachers and politicians often contend that hardship knits us together. That some great calamity like the Crash brings out the best and most noble in us. Yet in his long, tortured, and grasping life, Harvey Bennett Lomax will have witnessed only the opposite. In his experience, the harder things get, the worse we treat one another. And the worst things we’ll ever do, we save for our families.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Though why is it, she wonders casually as she stacks the boxes in her van, that we expect our children to be the ones to halt deforestation and species extinction and to rescue our planet tomorrow, when we are the ones overseeing its destruction today. There’s a Chinese proverb Willow has always loved: The best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. And the second-best time is always now. And the same goes for saving the ecosystem.”

24. “Though why is it, she wonders casually as she stacks the boxes in her van, that we expect our children to be the ones to halt deforestation and species extinction and to rescue our planet tomorrow, when we are the ones overseeing its destruction today. There’s a Chinese proverb Willow has always loved: The best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. And the second-best time is always now. And the same goes for saving the ecosystem.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Never once, however, did he mention his health or suggest a visit... they may even have managed to say some things they needed to say. Instead he chose secrecy. Instead he chose solitude and stoicism. Instead he died alone, in the trees. And she hates how much sense it makes.”

25. “Never once, however, did he mention his health or suggest a visit... they may even have managed to say some things they needed to say. Instead he chose secrecy. Instead he chose solitude and stoicism. Instead he died alone, in the trees. And she hates how much sense it makes.”

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Michael Christie Quote: “Lomax reminds me of a tree that’s been sawn right through and still won’t fall. And while I’m more a sailor than a lumberman, I did my time in your camps, and one thing I learned there is that a tree that’s been cut through and still won’t drop is one of the most dangerous things there is.”

26. “Lomax reminds me of a tree that’s been sawn right through and still won’t fall. And while I’m more a sailor than a lumberman, I did my time in your camps, and one thing I learned there is that a tree that’s been cut through and still won’t drop is one of the most dangerous things there is.”

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