--- title: "3 Too far Quotes By Michael Cunningham" description: "3 Too far quotes by Michael Cunningham. Plus more from Michael Cunningham and more Too far sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/michael-cunningham-1120_another-world_how-often-since-then-has-she-wondered-wh_48996.jpg" --- > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/how-often-since-then-has-she-wondered-what-might-have-happened-if-she/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/michael-cunningham-1120_another-world_how-often-since-then-has-she-wondered-wh_48996.jpg) > [Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herself-and-you-renounce/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59a/michael-cunningham-1120_citizenship_venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herse_330957.png) > [“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herself-and-you-renounce-2/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/michael-cunningham-1120_love_venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herse_1955943.png) ## Other authors on Too far ## More by Michael Cunningham > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/mizzy-has-wandered-into-the-garden-carole-looks-contemplatively-at/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/zoe-loved-trancas-s-mother-she-respected-her-exhausted-and-ironic/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/the-lives-great-artists-live-and-the-books-they-write-are-two-very/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/how-often-since-then-has-she-wondered-what-might-have-happened-if-she/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [“...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/a-full-week-of-their-mother-s-quiet-fury-over-the-fun-they-don-t-seem/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/oh-all-you-immigrants-and-visionaries-what-do-you-hope-to-find-here/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [“She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/she-wants-to-have-baked-a-cake-that-banishes-sorrow-even-if-only-for/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/and-yet-it-gives-peter-nothing-not-now-not-today-not-when-he-needs/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/he-insists-on-a-version-of-you-that-is-funnier-stranger-more/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [The worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/the-worst-are-full-of-passionate-intensity-while-the-best-lack-all/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/and-here-he-is-letting-the-massive-steel-street-door-click-shut/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/it-s-the-world-you-live-in-it-even-if-some-boy-has-made-a-fool-of-you/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [“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,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/she-s-had-a-long-life-now-she-s-going-to-the-lord-frankly-it-creeps/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/any-other-vexations-to-report-he-asks-i-love-the-word-vexations-it-s/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) > [Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/dead-we-are-revealed-in-our-true-dimensions-and-they-are-surprisingly/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/too-far/michael-cunningham/#itemlist", "name": "3 Too far Quotes By Michael Cunningham", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 the corner of Bleeker and McDougal, gone off somewhere (where?) with him, never bought the packet of incense or the alpaca coat with rose-shaped buttons. Couldn’t they have discovered something larger and stranger than what they've got. It is impossible not to imagine that other future, that rejected future, as taking place in Italy or France, among big sunny rooms and gardens; as being full of infidelities and great battles; as a vast and enduring romance laid over friendship so searing and profound it would accompany them to the grave and possibly even beyond. She could, she thinks, have entered another world. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. Or then again maybe not, Clarissa tells herself. That's who I was. This is who I am--a decent woman with a good apartment, with a stable and affectionate marriage, giving a party. Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port. Still, there is this sense of missed opportunity. Maybe there is nothing, ever, that can equal the recollection of having been young together. Maybe it's as simple as that. Richard was the person Clarissa loved at her most optimistic moment. Richard had stood beside her at the pond's edge at dusk, wearing cut-off jeans and rubber sandals. Richard had called her Mrs. Dalloway, and they had kissed. His mouth had opened to hers; (exciting and utterly familiar, she'd never forget it) had worked its way shyly inside until she met its own. They'd kissed and walked around the pond together. It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book. The dinner is by now forgotten; Lessing has been long overshadowed by other writers. What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around a pond as mosquitoes droned in the darkening air. There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then. There has been no other.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Cunningham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/how-often-since-then-has-she-wondered-what-might-have-happened-if-she/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/michael-cunningham-1120_another-world_how-often-since-then-has-she-wondered-wh_48996.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/michael-cunningham-1120_another-world_how-often-since-then-has-she-wondered-wh_48996.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/michael-cunningham-1120_another-world_how-often-since-then-has-she-wondered-wh_48996.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she'd tried to remain with him; if she’d…” — Michael Cunningham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Cunningham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herself-and-you-renounce/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59a/michael-cunningham-1120_citizenship_venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herse_330957.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59a/michael-cunningham-1120_citizenship_venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herse_330957.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59a/michael-cunningham-1120_citizenship_venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herse_330957.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for…” — Michael Cunningham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Cunningham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herself-and-you-renounce-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/michael-cunningham-1120_love_venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herse_1955943.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/michael-cunningham-1120_love_venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herse_1955943.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/michael-cunningham-1120_love_venture-too-far-for-love-she-tells-herse_1955943.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for…” — Michael Cunningham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/too-far/michael-cunningham/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/too-far/michael-cunningham/", "name": "Too far Quotes by Michael Cunningham", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/too-far/michael-cunningham/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/michael-cunningham-1120_another-world_how-often-since-then-has-she-wondered-wh_48996.jpg" }, "description": "3 Too far quotes by Michael Cunningham. Plus more from Michael Cunningham and more Too far sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/too-far/michael-cunningham/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/too-far/michael-cunningham/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Too Far", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/too-far/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Michael Cunningham", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/too-far/michael-cunningham/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```