“Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing.” — Michael Cunningham Hope Copy Share Image
“My little girl, oh, the daughter I never had. Now tell me, angel, are you fucking anybody new?” — Michael Cunningham Children Copy Share Image
“I have to keep reminding myself that almost everybody is always lying.” — Michael Cunningham Lying Copy Share Image
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years. — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is the only appropriate response to everything that happens.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess.” — Michael Cunningham Song Copy Share Image
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. — Michael Cunningham Death Copy Share Image
All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open… — Michael Cunningham Against all odds Copy Share Image
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is… — Michael Cunningham Being honest Copy Share Image
“This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of… — Michael Cunningham Death Copy Share Image
“That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew… — Michael Cunningham Brotherhood Copy Share Image
But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to… — Michael Cunningham Life Copy Share Image
I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Here's the sting of livingness. He's back after his nightly voyage of sleep, all clarity and purpose; he's renewed his citizenship in… — Michael Cunningham Citizenship Copy Share Image
“We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk… — Michael Cunningham Beauty Copy Share Image
Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like… — Michael Cunningham Boredom Copy Share Image
The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write… — Michael Cunningham Book Copy Share Image
“She'll be willing to meet someone who can hold her interest for more than a few months, and that guy will teach… — Michael Cunningham Adventure Copy Share Image
“It is only after knowing him for some time that you begin to realize you are, to him, an essentially fictional character,… — Michael Cunningham Character Copy Share Image
“It's stores, it's the whole thing, all that shit everywhere, 'scuse me, that merchandise, all those goods, and ads screaming at you… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“There is something exciting about this. Peter still doesn't want to have sex with Mizzy, but there is something thrilling about downing… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump… — Michael Cunningham Life Copy Share Image
“In a sense Provincetown is a beach. If you stand on the shore watching the tide recede, you are merely that much… — Michael Cunningham Extreme weather Copy Share Image
“Without rich people who want it done now, who would animate the free world? In theory, you want everyone to live peacefully… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“The world is full of Guses--good-looking boys and girls who've been dealt the best possible genetic hand by parents and grandparents and… — Michael Cunningham Art Copy Share Image
“Utter objectivity...is not only impossible when judging literature, it’s not exactly desirable. Fiction involves trace elements of magic; it works for reasons… — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
“I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of… — Michael Cunningham Desire Copy Share Image
“There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later… — Michael Cunningham Children Copy Share Image
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham Art Copy Share Image
Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“The problem with the truth is, it's so often mild and clichéd.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.” — Michael Cunningham Hope Copy Share Image
I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. — Michael Cunningham Beautiful Copy Share Image
You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the… — Michael Cunningham Lying Copy Share Image
