Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“...she might not have been party to love, but it still took a lot of volume to fill a life.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“At Yale, when he was young and headstrong, he'd been sure that one day he'd be the very axis of the world,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“If your life doesn't flash in front of your eyes, old boy, does that mean you've had no life at all?” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can’t stop the lines in time, so I’m a… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“What was life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves if incident. Stacked at odd angles to each other.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mobius strip, until we come home, eventually, to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“It's hardly wisdom, but the older I get the more I believe that our lives are built not out of time, but… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
