261 Quotes by Michael Cunningham

Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he had staked out and combed into rows at the top of his family's land.

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

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.

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

Beauty and dignity were illusions fostered by the company of children, sustained for the benefit of children.

Pensa a quanto più spazio occupi un essere in vita che in morte, a quanta dimensione illusoria sia contenuta nei gesti, nel movimento, nel respiro. Morti, ci riveliamo nelle nostre vere dimensioni, e sono dimensioni sorprendentemente modeste. (...) Non ha sentito forse lei stessa, Virginia, uno spazio vuoto dentro di sé, sorprendentemente piccolo, dove sembrava avessero dimora i sentimenti più forti?

Women are kind of screwed, in the world,” Andrew says.

But then again, in addition to paper and cardboard...a little illuminated box, that contains thousands and thousands of stories? People aren’t fascinated by that? Really?

We thought she was alright, we thought her sorrows were ordinary ones, We had no idea.