“I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult.” — Michael Cunningham Child Copy Share Image
“She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be. — Michael Cunningham Beauty Copy Share Image
“It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.” — Michael Cunningham Country Copy Share Image
I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous. — Michael Cunningham Fame Copy Share Image
Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity. — Michael Cunningham Astronomy Copy Share Image
. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.” — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
“She lays the book face down on her chest. Already her bedroom (no, their bedroom) feels more densely inhabited, more actual, because… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It helps, of course - let's not get carried away - if you'er a young prince like Mizzy, and you've actually got… — Michael Cunningham First place Copy Share Image
“...and when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, 'Can I help you,' it's… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“What he remembers with perfect clarity is sitting on a train headed for Madrid, feeling the sort of happiness he imagines spirits… — Michael Cunningham Fitness Copy Share Image
“Yes, she thinks, this probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It’s a little like reading, isn’t it—that same sensation… — Michael Cunningham Ghost 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
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
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 Time Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost… — 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 Graveyard Copy Share Image
“THE PILGRIM MOTHERS AND FATHERS Provincetown’s first settlers were, in fact, the Pilgrims, who sailed the Mayflower into Provincetown Harbor in 1620.… — Michael Cunningham Fresh water Copy Share Image
“...a much younger woman, one of those round-faced, tiny-featured women who were touted as beauties though they were not in fact particularly… — Michael Cunningham Beauty Copy Share Image
“Here is what unsayable about us: Jonathan and I are members of a team so old nobody else could join even if… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change… — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
“Provincetown is by nature a destination. It is the land’s end; it is not en route to anywhere else. One of its… — Michael Cunningham Nature Copy Share Image
“Susan was a tough-minded romantic. She wanted to fall in love with a book. She always had reasons for her devotions, as… — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
“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… — Michael Cunningham Another world Copy Share Image
“Which is probably one of the reasons those of us who love contemporary fiction love it as we do. We’re alone with… — Michael Cunningham Children Copy Share Image
“Die young, stay pretty. Blondie, right? We think of it as a modern phenomenon, the whole youth thing, but really, consider all… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Morning, Peter,” she calls from the back, in her exaggerated German accent. Mawning, Pedder. She’s been in the States more than fifteen… — Michael Cunningham Fifteen years Copy Share Image
“One often feels exalted, expanded, in his presence. He is not one of those egotists who miniaturize others. He is the opposite… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
