Michael Cunningham Quotes

born 1952 United States

Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.

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Also known as: The Hours (novel)

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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

The Hours (1998)

He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess.

The Hours (1998)

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

The Hours (1998)

...the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.

The Hours (1998)

It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean? What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. There it is. No-one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life.

...Virginia lingers another moment beside the dead bird in its circle of roses. It could be a kind of hat. It could be the missing link between millinery and death.

The Hours (1998)

Why doesn't she feel more somber about Richard's perversely simultaneous good fortune ("an anguished, prophetic voice in American letters") and his decline ("You have no T-cells at all, none that we can detect")? What is wrong with her? She loves Richard, she thinks of him constantly, but she perhaps loves the day slightly more.

The Hours (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Cunningham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.