#fugitive pieces

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from her novel titled "Fugitive Pieces," originally published in 1996

[sdillanes]

[aseaofquotes]

Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

[bluewillowmoon]

“We long for place; but place itself longs. Human memory is encoded in air currents and river sediment. Eskers of ash wait to be scooped up, lives reconstituted.”

— Anne Michael, from “The Stone-Carriers,” Fugitive Pieces (Vintage International, 1996)

[thewebspinner]

[lastnightfanfictionsavedmylife]

Jakob and his fluffy hair and shining eyes...

[usermoiraine]

[exhaled-spirals]

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