"Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another."
— Anne Michaels (Fugitive Pieces: A Novel)

"...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain."
— Anne Michaels (Fugitive Pieces: A Novel)

"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."
— Anne Michaels