You can't find peace by avoiding life.

- Michael Cunningham

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

- Michael Cunningham

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,…

- Michael Cunningham

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

- Michael Cunningham

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

- Michael Cunningham

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

- Michael Cunningham

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

we become the stories we tell ourselves

- Michael Cunningham

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

- Michael Cunningham