Best Colum McCann Quotations
- The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young… Anymore
- Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give. Give
- No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the… All
- We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough. Almost Enough
- You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven... Cost
- Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't. Function
- He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic. Been
- People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect. All
- There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it. Existing
- One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and… Assailed
- If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. Ask
- I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it. Ask
- I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still… Alive
- 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… All
- With all respects to heaven, I like it here. All
- The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall. Darkness
- This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for. Cobwebs
- He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the… Air
- Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground.… Crawls
- She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag… Another Long
- So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them. Dream
- Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it… Arising
- A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader. Book
- ...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. Altogether
- Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. Alive
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