261 Quotes by 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 satisfying, as a fate finally realized - when they slammed the door behind you?

Buongiorno, microbo,” dice a Richie.“Sto mangiando i cereali,” dice lui. E ridacchia. Si potrebbe quasi dire che le lancia uno sguardo malizioso. È palesemente infatuato di lei; è comico e tragico nel suo amore disperato. La fa pensare ogni tanto a un topo che canta serenate d’amore sotto la finestra di una gigantessa.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

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 impossible to Tyler that that might not matter. It drives him insane.

Then the feeling moves on. It does not collapse; it is not whisked away. It simply moves on, like a train that stops at a small country station, stands for a while, and then continues out of sight.

I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having ‘no edge’ being simple and worse, harmless.

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.