“. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
“Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he had staked out and combed into rows at the top of his family's land.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
“My little girl, oh, the daughter I never had. Now tell me, angel, are you fucking anybody new?”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
“...a much younger woman, one of those round-faced, tiny-featured women who were touted as beauties though they were not in fact particularly beautiful. They were simply the daughters of wealthy families powerful enough to demand that the concept of beauty be expanded to include them.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
Michael Cunningham
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“But I kept it to myself--maybe because I didn't think it mattered, but probably because, in a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that only I had read.”
― Ally Carter, quote from I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“The first time I saw you, when you stepped into that Skiz ring against Kaede, I thought you were the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. I could've watched you forever. The first time I kiss you..." That memory overpowers me now, taking me by surprise. I remember every last detail of it, almost enough to push away the lingering images of the Elector pulling June to him. "Well, that might as well have been my first kiss ever.”
― Marie Lu, quote from Prodigy
“To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.”
― Dee Brown, quote from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.”
― Muriel Barbery, quote from The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from 1Q84
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