...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He glanced up in my direction and I froze. Quickly I turned away. There are rocks deep enough in this earth that… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard… — 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
Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“...most people who've been around awhile know [love's] just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There… — 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
![“...most people who've been around awhile know [love's] just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lost it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.” quote by Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a2/colum-mccann-902_day-by-day_most-people-who-ve-been-around-awhile-kn_2856062.jpg)
