“I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.”
“Why doesn't she feel more somber about Richard's perversely simultaneous good fortune ("an anguished, prophetic voice in American letters") and his decline ("You have no T-cells at all, none that we can detect")? What is wrong with her? She loves Richard, she thinks of him constantly, but she perhaps loves the day slightly more.”
“He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess.”
“...the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.”
“...Virginia lingers another moment beside the dead bird in its circle of roses. It could be a kind of hat. It could be the missing link between millinery and death.”
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Michael Cunningham is an Irish former hurler and Gaelic footballer. At club level, he played with Emly and at inter-county level he was a member of the Tipperary senior football team.