Quote by Michael Cunningham Download Open image “She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.” — Michael Cunningham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Without being conscious of it, she looks for a situation in which she can give up her façade of self-sufficiency and ease back into… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
There's something uncontaminated about her, and I don't even mean sexually or whatever. I mean the way she is, at her core. Like when… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“What terms might be used to describe such a solipsistic, self-consumed, bottomless emotional vacuum and sponge as she now appeared to herself to be?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire. — Hanif Kureishi 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 those kids… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham 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 kiss on… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“...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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become? — Michael Cunningham 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
“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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction. — Michael Cunningham 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 steps that… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
