Best Colum McCann Sayings
- She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof… Armies
- There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying… Always Family
- Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns. Breakdown
- He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him,… All
- There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a… Deep
- He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake. Another Kind
- He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last. First Step
- I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a… Always Love
- And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future… Across
- That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll… Children
- The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last. Firsts
- The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime… Accepted
- ...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise. Inspirational
- He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The… Another Way
- He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing… All
- Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. All
- She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes… Bear
- Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining… All
- Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me. Complication
- She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of… All
- How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again. Inevitable
- He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once. Afford
- Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those… Fought
- Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them.… Became
- We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will… Certain
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