“Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It is only after knowing him for some time that you begin to realize you are, to him, an essentially fictional character,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“There is still that singular perfection, and its perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It’s your life, quite possibly your only one. Still you find yourself having a vodka at three a.m., waiting for your pill… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Outside the house is a world where the shelves are stocked, where radio waves are full of music, where young men walk… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be a writer, that's all. I wanted to write about it all. Everything that happens in a moment. The… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“We'd hoped vaguely to fall in love but hadn't worried much about it, because we'd thought we had all the time in… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“How are you feeling, man?" he asks me. "Great," I tell him, and it is purely the truth. Doves clatter up out… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go, Provincetown will always take you back, at whatever age and in whatever condition. Because time moves somewhat differently there,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Mizzy has wandered into the garden. Carole looks contemplatively at him, says, "Lovely boy." "My wife's insanely younger brother. He's one of those kids… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she'd tried to remain with him; if she’d returned Richard's kiss on… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“...a full week of their mother's quiet fury over the fun they don't seem to be having and their father's dogged attempts to provide… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become? — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than the shark… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
The worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“She's had a long life. Now she's going to the Lord." "Frankly it creeps me out a little when you say things like that,"… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
Any other vexations to report?" he asks. "I love the word 'vexations.'" "It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
