Michael Cunningham Giving Quotations

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.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.