Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I? I was a nineteen-year-old and I was in love with Louis and I was in love with you, and I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful as the sight of you walking out a glass door in the early morning, still sleepy, in your underwear. Isn't it strange? ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.199, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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- We always worry about the wrong things, don't we? ✨ Michael Cunningham (2010). By Nightfall: A Novel, p.17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. ✨ Michael Cunningham (2010). A Home at the End of the World: A Novel, p.24, Macmillan
- What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that. ✨ Michael Cunning … ▶
- Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. ✨ Found in Translation. Article by Michael … ▶
- That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.95, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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