Quote by Colum McCann Download Open image ““They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs.”” — Colum McCann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Men are like that. They’re like geraniums. When they look as if they’re ready to be tossed into the bin they revive.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be--and are ruined.” — W.K. Marriott Copy Share Image
“He hadn't stiffened up or anything. I just wasn't used to dressing guys, even if they were dead.” — Warren Moore Copy Share Image
“There were maybe eighty chairs set up in the room, and it was two-thirds full but felt one-third empty.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“They looked shallow, self-absorbed. And a small, strangled part of me envied them.” — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
“We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts of ourselves we… — Emma Cline 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
