I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what’s already been set in motion.
Michael CunninghamTag: ageing
This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining.
Michael CunninghamShe is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.
Michael CunninghamTag: unreality
You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.
Michael CunninghamTag: aging
There’s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we’ve ever imagined.
Michael CunninghamTag: life
She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.
Michael CunninghamThe book worm, the foreign-looking one with the dark, close set eyes an the Roman nose, who had never been sought after or cherished; who had always been left alone, to read.
Michael CunninghamShe has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.
Michael CunninghamRemember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity.
Michael CunninghamYou live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.
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