Michael Cunningham Quotes

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Michael Cunningham

• Different
• Beautiful
• Manly

I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

Michael Cunningham

• Remember
• Feeling
• Morning

Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.

Michael Cunningham

• Love
• Know
• Always

we become the stories we tell ourselves

Michael Cunningham

• Stories
• Become
• Ourselves

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

Michael Cunningham

• Secret
• Laws
• Immediately

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

Michael Cunningham

• Always
• Give
• Assumption

You can't find peace by avoiding life.

Michael Cunningham

• Life
• Find
• Avoiding

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

Michael Cunningham

• Book
• Serious
• Kiss

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

Michael Cunningham

• Rain
• Streets
• Wondering

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

Michael Cunningham

• World
• Beauty
• Expect