--- title: "14 Want Quotes By Michael Cunningham" description: "14 Want quotes by Michael Cunningham. Plus more from Michael Cunningham and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acc/michael-cunningham-1120_arms_you-want-to-give-him-the-book-of-his-own_1432223.png" --- > [You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/you-want-to-give-him-the-book-of-his-own-life-the-book-that-will/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acc/michael-cunningham-1120_arms_you-want-to-give-him-the-book-of-his-own_1432223.png) > [What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/what-she-wants-to-say-has-to-do-not-only-with-joy-but-with-the/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64b/michael-cunningham-1120_constant_what-she-wants-to-say-has-to-do-not-only_1693421.png) > [Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/love-is-deep-a-mystery-who-wants-to-understand-its-every-particular/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/michael-cunningham-1120_deep_love-is-deep-a-mystery-who-wants-to-unde_2443856.png) > [Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/take-me-with-you-i-want-a-doomed-love-i-want-streets-at-night-wind/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b2/michael-cunningham-1120_love_take-me-with-you-i-want-a-doomed-love-i_498419.png) > [Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/accept-that-like-many-men-you-have-a-streak-of-the-homoerotic-in-you/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d64/michael-cunningham-1120_accepting_accept-that-like-many-men-you-have-a-str_3097237.png) > [She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/she-is-above-all-else-tired-she-wants-more-than-anything-to-return-to/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbf/michael-cunningham-1120_bed_she-is-above-all-else-tired-she-wants-mo_2388027.jpg) > [If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/if-you-ve-really-loved-a-book-or-a-movie-for-that-matter-really-loved/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/307/michael-cunningham-1120_betrayed_if-you-ve-really-loved-a-book-or-a-movie_1820356.jpg) > [Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/her-cake-is-a-failure-but-she-is-loved-anyway-she-is-loved-she-thinks/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b2/michael-cunningham-1120_appreciated_her-cake-is-a-failure-but-she-is-loved-a_678820.jpg) > [He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/he-s-one-of-those-smart-drifty-young-people-who-after-certain/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/407/michael-cunningham-1120_art_he-s-one-of-those-smart-drifty-young-peo_2244399.png) > [I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/i-feel-like-there-s-something-terrible-and-wonderful-and-amazing-that/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dec/michael-cunningham-1120_dream_i-feel-like-there-s-something-terrible-a_3176747.png) > [What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/what-i-want-to-say-is-that-i-owe-all-the-happiness-of-my-life-to-you/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0a/michael-cunningham-1120_certainty_what-i-want-to-say-is-that-i-owe-all-the_2758919.png) > [Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/man-he-said-i-m-not-afraid-of-graveyards-the-dead-are-just-you-know/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84a/michael-cunningham-1120_graveyard_man-he-said-i-m-not-afraid-of-graveyards_2783784.png) > [The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/the-kiss-was-innocent-innocent-enough-but-it-was-also-full-of/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cb/michael-cunningham-1120_afternoon_the-kiss-was-innocent-innocent-enough-bu_1885642.jpg) > [What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/what-i-want-to-say-is-that-i-owe-all-the-happiness-of-my-life-to-you-2/) [Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d95/michael-cunningham-1120_certainty_what-i-want-to-say-is-that-i-owe-all-the_2795129.png) ## Other authors on Want ## 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/want/michael-cunningham/#itemlist", "name": "14 Want Quotes By Michael Cunningham", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Cunningham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/you-want-to-give-him-the-book-of-his-own-life-the-book-that-will/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acc/michael-cunningham-1120_arms_you-want-to-give-him-the-book-of-his-own_1432223.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acc/michael-cunningham-1120_arms_you-want-to-give-him-the-book-of-his-own_1432223.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acc/michael-cunningham-1120_arms_you-want-to-give-him-the-book-of-his-own_1432223.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the…” — Michael Cunningham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Cunningham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/what-she-wants-to-say-has-to-do-not-only-with-joy-but-with-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64b/michael-cunningham-1120_constant_what-she-wants-to-say-has-to-do-not-only_1693421.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64b/michael-cunningham-1120_constant_what-she-wants-to-say-has-to-do-not-only_1693421.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64b/michael-cunningham-1120_constant_what-she-wants-to-say-has-to-do-not-only_1693421.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's…” — Michael Cunningham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Cunningham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/love-is-deep-a-mystery-who-wants-to-understand-its-every-particular/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/michael-cunningham-1120_deep_love-is-deep-a-mystery-who-wants-to-unde_2443856.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/michael-cunningham-1120_deep_love-is-deep-a-mystery-who-wants-to-unde_2443856.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/michael-cunningham-1120_deep_love-is-deep-a-mystery-who-wants-to-unde_2443856.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?” — Michael Cunningham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Take me with you. 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