--- title: "1 Miracle Happen Quotes By Tom McCarthy" description: "1 Miracle Happen quotes by Tom McCarthy. Plus more from Tom McCarthy and more Miracle Happen sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/351/tom-mccarthy-45935_cars_another-bottle-was-brought-out-and-poure_2688212.jpg" --- > [“Another bottle was brought out and poured into the reservoir. Once more I climbed inside the car and pressed the spurter button. Once more nothing happened--and once more, when we looked inside the reservoir, we found it empty. "Two litres!"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-mccarthy/another-bottle-was-brought-out-and-poured-into-the-reservoir-once/) [Tom McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/351/tom-mccarthy-45935_cars_another-bottle-was-brought-out-and-poure_2688212.jpg) ## More by Tom McCarthy > [“It's not that I'm being shy. It's just that -- well, for one, I don't even remember the event. It's a blank: a white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-mccarthy/it-s-not-that-i-m-being-shy-it-s-just-that-well-for-one-i-don-t-even/) [Tom McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-mccarthy/) > [“All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-mccarthy/all-great-enterprises-are-about-logistics-not-genius-or-inspiration/) [Tom McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-mccarthy/) > [ “\[...\]to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-mccarthy/to-be-real-to-become-fluent-natural-to-cut-out-the-detour-that-sweeps/) [Tom McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-mccarthy/) > [“Literature has to remain frustrating — to withhold something, remain incomplete — or it’s not literature anymore, but rather entertainment, edification or interpretation. That’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-mccarthy/literature-has-to-remain-frustrating-to-withhold-something-remain/) [Tom McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-mccarthy/) > [“Surplus matter. I'd forgotten all about that phrase, those classes -- even before the accident, I mean. After the accident I forgot everything. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-mccarthy/surplus-matter-i-d-forgotten-all-about-that-phrase-those-classes-even/) [Tom McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-mccarthy/) > [“Guns aren't just history's props and agents: they're history itself, spinning alternate futures in their chamber, hurling the present from their barrel, casting aside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-mccarthy/guns-aren-t-just-history-s-props-and-agents-they-re-history-itself/) [Tom McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-mccarthy/) > [“Another bottle was brought out and poured into the reservoir. Once more I climbed inside the car and pressed the spurter button. Once more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-mccarthy/another-bottle-was-brought-out-and-poured-into-the-reservoir-once/) [Tom McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-mccarthy/) > [“I stopped right in the middle of the road. There was no traffic. Before heading back towards my flat to get the number I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-mccarthy/i-stopped-right-in-the-middle-of-the-road-there-was-no-traffic-before/) [Tom McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-mccarthy/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/miracle-happen/tom-mccarthy/#itemlist", "name": "1 Miracle Happen Quotes By Tom McCarthy", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Another bottle was brought out and poured into the reservoir. Once more I climbed inside the car and pressed the spurter button. Once more nothing happened--and once more, when we looked inside the reservoir, we found it empty. \"Two litres!\" I said. \"Where has it all gone?\" They'd vaporized, evaporated. And do you know what? It felt wonderful. Don't ask me why: it just did. It was as though I'd just witnessed a miracle: matter--these two litres of liquid--becoming un-matter--not surplus matter, mess or clutter, but pure, bodiless blueness. Transubstantiated. I looked up at the sky: it was blue and endless. I looked back at the boy. His overalls and face were covered in smears. He'd taken on these smears so that the miracle could happen, like a Christian martyr being flagellated, crucified, scrawled over with stigmata. I felt elated--elated and inspired. \"If only...\" I started, but paused. \"What?\" he asked. \"If only everything could...\" I trailed off. I knew what I meant. I stood there looking at his grubby face and told him: \"Thank you.\" Then I got into the car and turned the ignition key in its slot. The engine caught--and as it did, a torrent of blue liquid burst out of the dashboard and cascaded down. It gushed from the radio, the heating panel, the hazard-lights switch and the speedometer and mileage counter. 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