“Women are kind of screwed, in the world,” Andrew says.” — Michael Cunningham Feminism Copy Share Image
She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. — Michael Cunningham Eccentric Copy Share Image
“Fearlessness in the face of your own ineptitude is a useful tool to have.” — Michael Cunningham Fearlessness Copy Share Image
“One of the troubles with love is, you can't talk about it without feeling like you keep cueing old songs.” — Michael Cunningham Love Copy Share Image
What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story? — Michael Cunningham Hero Copy Share Image
She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. — Michael Cunningham Authority 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 Love Copy Share Image
Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Love, it seems, arrives not only unannounced, but so accidentally, so randomly, as to make you wonder why you, why anyone, believes… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Who was it who said, the worst thing you can imagine is probably what's already happening? Shrink phrase. Not untrue, though.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on… — Michael Cunningham Fish Copy Share Image
“Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“You know, if you're hopeful, if you're even a little bit happy about something that might happen, it doesn't affect the outcome.… — Michael Cunningham Hope Copy Share Image
She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“There's no denying his resemblance to the Rodin bronze - the slender, effortless muscularity of youth, the extravagant nonchalance of it; that… — Michael Cunningham Beauty Copy Share Image
“Do you imagine, Peter, that your Carpe Diem boots would look any less deluded to them than that guy's Tony Lamas do… — Michael Cunningham Carpe diem Copy Share Image
“Men may congratulate themselves for writing truly and passionately about the movements of nations; they may consider war and the search for… — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
“If I die tomorrow, Provincetown is where I’d want my ashes scattered. Who knows why we fall in love, with places or… — Michael Cunningham Fall in love Copy Share Image
“He’ll be successful, finally, this coming Sunday, at the modest ceremony to be held in the living room. It’s all so clear.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
You could say I don't want for me be seen primarily as a gay writer. I've never hidden my sexuality. It matters… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Right now she is reading Virginia Woolf, all of Virginia Woolf, book by book-She is fascinated by the idea of a woman… — Michael Cunningham Book Copy Share Image
“Heaven winked at you, right? Maybe. Maybe it did. Or maybe it was just an airplane and a cloud. But if heaven… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the room of her house, and when she glanced over… — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
“It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later, to realize that… — Michael Cunningham Happiness Copy Share Image
“A sensation rose in him, a high tingling of his blood. There came a wave, a wind that recognized him, that did… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Milwaukee, Rebecca. Order and sobriety and a devotion to cleanliness that scours out the soul. Decent people doing their best to live… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“He feels, as he sometimes does, as most people must, a presence in the room, what he can only think of as… — 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… — Michael Cunningham Marriage Copy Share Image
“Do you ever think? What? They were lying together on the sofa that had always been there, the crappy beat-up biscuit-colored sofa… — Michael Cunningham Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“The Taylors have this gift for imperturbable presence. They are not nervous talkers. The Harrises, on the other hand, have always been… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Peter is still amazed at the degree to which a certain widening gyre of accolades can change an artist's work, literally change… — Michael Cunningham Art Copy Share Image
“In heaven, Lucas would be beautiful. He’d speak a language everyone understood.” — Michael Cunningham Heaven Copy Share Image
The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. — Michael Cunningham Body Copy Share Image
“The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects.” — Michael Cunningham Art Copy Share Image
Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular? — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
