You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular? — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — 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
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — 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
