Michelle Richmond Quotes

#1. Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.

Michelle Richmond

#2. I never expected to find myself here, on the edge of the continent
childless, possibly jobless, with broken bones and a broken marriage, citizen of a broken country. But here I am, and I must make something of it. That's really the only choice one has: make something of it, or don't.

Michelle Richmond

#3. Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.

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#4. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

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#5. With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with you long after their secrets have been revealed.

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#6. I already have a son
One is enough?
There was a time when I dreamt of having three or four but I rather failed one the fatherhood front didn't I? Some errors don't bear repeating.

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#7. Life isn't just about major characters and the big events. It's about everyone, everything, in between.

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#8. To be a writer you have to write
and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

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#9. As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163

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#10. We tend to see life as a continuum, Julie, but really, it's a series of phases, generating a series of different selves. You leave one life behind and start another. And each time, a different version of yourself emerges.

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#11. It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.

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#12. But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

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#13. I understand how families become estranged, not by design, but by embarrassment. You come to a point when so much time has passed that it seems impossible to make the first move

Michelle Richmond