“. . . 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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“Be honest with yourself; set the alarm for the time the Real You will get up, not the Ambitious You, because the Ambitious You doesn't really exist.”
― Laurie Notaro, quote from Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
“Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.”
― David Anthony Durham, quote from Acacia: The War with the Mein
“In the context of body redesign, there are two fundamental MEDs to keep in mind: To remove stored fat → do the least necessary to trigger a fat-loss cascade of specific hormones. To add muscle in small or large quantities → do the least necessary to trigger local (specific muscles) and systemic (hormonal2) growth mechanisms.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“Where do you want to live? Do you want to live free and poor and covered in flea welts? Or enslaved, with your own clean room and a shower with hot water? Who are you, Virginia? Who are you, really?”
― Laura Resau, quote from The Queen of Water
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