“I guess I'm just stuck on the idea that there's this monumental machine, and we're all part of it. Most of the time, we don't even stop to think about how it works. We just go about our business, doing… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“I understand how families become estranged, not by design, but by embarrassment. You come to a point when so much time has passed that… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“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… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“I guess I'm just stuck on the idea that there's this monumental machine, and we're all part of it. Most of the time, we… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“I already have a son One is enough? There was a time when I dreamt of having three or four but I rather failed… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“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… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence. — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“I've thought far more about marriage in recent months than I ever did before. What is the marriage contract? The general assumption we have… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“Technical speaking one is a beautiful number. One is its own factorial, its own square, its own cube. It is neither a prime number… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with you long… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“Whenever I feel old—which seems to be happening more and more often these days—Alice tells me to imagine taking a picture of myself, then… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.” — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“I asked her to tell me what the best moment of her life had been Did she? Yes, she told me about a trip… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
