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
I was a little bit perturbed by the whole big grief machine that grew out of 9/11. I knew that I wanted… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the… — 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
![“Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a…” quote by Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/283/colum-mccann-902_argument_sometimes-we-just-walk-into-something-th_208197.jpg)
