“ She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. Michael Cunningham
“ I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of writhing snakes. I was my father's daughter. I wanted to be loved by someone like my tough… Michael Cunningham
“ I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper.… Michael Cunningham
“ I’m not this unusual, she said. It’s just my hair.She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at on… Michael Cunningham
“ I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my ste… Michael Cunningham
“ There were no weapons of mass destruction. And we bombed them anyway.And, by the way he's destroyed the economy. He's squandered something in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars. It seems impossibl… Michael Cunningham
“ She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage an… Michael Cunningham
“ I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting… Michael Cunningham
“ Isn’t the universe full of gaseous elements?Andrew says, Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter. Michael Cunningham
“ He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced. Michael Cunningham
“ How are you feeling, man? he asks me.Great, I tell him, and it is purely the truth. Doves clatter up out of a bare tree and turn at the same instant, transforming themselves from steel to silver in th… Michael Cunningham
“ Do you ever think?What?They were lying together on the sofa that had always been there, the crappy beat-up biscuit-colored sofa that was managing, as best it could, its promotion from threadbare junk… Michael Cunningham
“ A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the… Michael Cunningham
“ We thought she was alright, we thought her sorrows were ordinary ones, We had no idea. Michael Cunningham
“ It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places. Michael Cunningham
“ Were you relieved, maybe just a little, when they lifted you up (you weighed almost nothing by then) and shoved you into the oven? Did it seem unanticipated but right, somehow - did it strike you as s… Michael Cunningham
“ La mente puesta en la carne es muerte, pero la mente puesta en el espíritu es vida y paz. Michael Cunningham
“ It’s better, really, to go out in a blaze. That’s why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who walk right into the fire. Michael Cunningham
