“Oh, Mrs. Dalloway. Always giving parties to cover the silence.” — Michael Cunningham Silence Copy Share Image
“She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.” — Michael Cunningham Grief Copy Share Image
“She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other. — Michael Cunningham Alive Copy Share Image
“Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity.” — michael cunningham Friend Copy Share Image
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. — Michael Cunningham Citizenship Copy Share Image
Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.” — Michael Cunningham Extinction Copy Share Image
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's… — Michael Cunningham Alive Copy Share Image
“Where did the boy genius go? He had been, as a child, expected to be a neurosurgeon, or a great novelist. And… — Michael Cunningham Children Copy Share Image
“Then the feeling moves on. It does not collapse; it is not whisked away. It simply moves on, like a train that… — Michael Cunningham Emotion Copy Share Image
We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“There is still that singular perfection, and its perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up… — Michael Cunningham Love Copy Share Image
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll… — Michael Cunningham Assumption Copy Share Image
I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what… — 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 Certainty Copy Share Image
Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out… — Michael Cunningham Being honest Copy Share Image
Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true;… — Michael Cunningham Advice Copy Share Image
“There is no one there to see it. The world is doing what it always does, demonstrating itself to itself. The world… — Michael Cunningham Phantoms Copy Share Image
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think… — Michael Cunningham American writer Copy Share Image
There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst… — Michael Cunningham Against all odds Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around… — Michael Cunningham Friendship Copy Share Image
“Peter hesitates. "Ridiculous" is the least of it. How about offensive, insulting? How about the implication that "someone who's never used" is… — Michael Cunningham First place 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 Death 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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“She, Laura, likes to imagine (it's one of her most closely held secrets) that she has a touch of brilliance herself, just… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Peter's mother was grand, in her way. She managed to complain almost ceaselessly without ever seeming trivial or kvetchy. She was regal… — Michael Cunningham Dictator Copy Share Image
“The Harrises, on the other hand, have always been constant talkers, not so much for the sake of entertainment or information but… — Michael Cunningham Chinese food Copy Share Image
“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“How are you feeling, man?" he asks me. "Great," I tell him, and it is purely the truth. Doves clatter up out… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was… — Michael Cunningham Bears Copy Share Image
It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you. — Michael Cunningham Boys Copy Share Image
“This, Barrett Meeks, is your work. You witness, and compile. You persevere.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction. — Michael Cunningham Intensity Copy Share Image
“What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep.” — Michael Cunningham Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become? — Michael Cunningham Immigrants Copy Share Image
“This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm,… — Michael Cunningham Charm Copy Share Image
“He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
