Michael Cunningham Quotes

They hope they’ll learn to be happier together. They also yearn, sometimes, for the point at which misery becomes so profound as to leave them no alternative.

This determined, abiding fascination is what she thinks of as her soul (an embarrassing, sentimental word, but what else to call it?); the part that might conceivably survive the death of the body.

Utter objectivity...is not only impossible when judging literature, it’s not exactly desirable. Fiction involves trace elements of magic; it works for reasons we can explain and also for reasons we ca...

Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port.

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

Who wouldn’t want to fuck these people up? Which of us does not understand, in our own less presentable depths, the demons and wizards compelled to persecute human mutations clearly meant, by deities...

Without rich people who want it done now, who would animate the free world? In theory, you want everyone to live peacefully according to their needs, along the banks of a river. In fact, you worry tha...

Yes, she thinks, this probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It’s a little like reading, isn’t it—that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part bey...

Yine de bu kaba ve yıkılmaz dünyayı seviyor, başkalarının da sevdiğini biliyor, hem yoksulların hem zenginlerin, hiç kimse bunun nedenlerinden özel olarak söz etmese de. Yoksa, ne kadar kararsız olsak...

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

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.

From Labor Day through Halloween, the place is almost unbearably beautiful. The air during these weeks seems less like ether and more like a semisolid, clear and yet dense somehow, as if it were fille...

В юности есть время строить планы и придумывать что-то новое. В более солидном возрасте приходится тратить всю энергию на то, что уже приведено в движение.

Това, което понякога ме тревожеше, бе простата дружелюбност на всичко това. Живеехме в свят на доброта и домашен ред. Понякога се виждах като Снежанка, която живее при джуджетата. Джуджетата се грижел...

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...

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?

And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that lead down to the shattered sidewalk. New York is probably, in this regard...

And so, he knows. He wants, he needs, to do the immoral, irresponsible thing. He wants to let this boy court his own destruction. He wants to commit that cruelty. Or (kinder, gentler version) he doesn...

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 in the tank meant to frighten, more than the guy on the street me...

Barret thinks- he thinks, briefly- of turning around and leaving the park; of being, this time, the vanisher, the man who leaves you wondering, who offers no explanation, not even the sour satisfactio...