“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
“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
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
...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise. — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“...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
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
