Michael Cunningham Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I've been just wondering lately, if this is, you know, it. An apartment and a steady job and some people to love. What more could I want?
Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.
I had blundered again, obscurely, and rather than go on worrying over my behavior, I decided to just give in and dislike Alice.
You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.
I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours.
Barrett strokes one of the chair's slick, bile-green arms. "You can get attached to just about anything, can't you?" he says.
A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again, by love.
He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may be read for centuries.
What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.
Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?
Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity.
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 it ...
You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
Who was it who said, the worst thing you can imagine is probably what's already happening? Shrink phrase. Not untrue, though.
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end. But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.
Venture too far for love ... and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port.
He seemed to believe that from such humble, inert elements as flour, shortening, and drab little envelopes of yeast, life itself could be produced.
Isn't the universe full of gaseous elements?"
Andrew says, "Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter.
Andrew says, "Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter.
He's filled with a sense of childish release, the old feeling that because you are sick, all your trials and obligations have been suspended.
One of the troubles with love is, you can't talk about it without feeling like you keep cueing old songs.
Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
He moved in a world of chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled bedroom.
I sometimes wonder how you live with such a modest sense of romance," Barrett says. "Superstition and romance are not the same thing.
People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.
The secret of flight is this
you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.
you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.
But magic is sometimes all about knowing where the secret door is, and how to open it. With that, you're gone
This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right?
What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is ... It was death. I chose life.
Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.