Quotes by Michelle Latiolais

About Michelle Latiolais:

Michelle Latiolais is an American author. She is currently a professor of creative writing at UC Irvine. Her collection of stories Widow was nominated for the 2011 Believer Book Award.
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...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood of her futile heart seeping out over her chest and arms and legs, flooding across the rough wooden floor, down the narrow w...

Michelle Latiolais

But then again, that's what the Book of Job was about to her, a cautionary tale about wanting there to be a God, wanting there to be someone who could enact what a God could enact, or who could sanction what the Devil would do. You want this, people?...

Michelle Latiolais

She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.

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For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish of losing someone else's body, their touch, their heat, their oceanic heart...she doesn't want another body, she wants the body she loved, the for...

Michelle Latiolais

Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance, serendipity--he might be there, that place she didn't think to look, hadn't worked hard enough to find......

Michelle Latiolais

She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need.

Michelle Latiolais

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  • NameMichelle Latiolais