Things happen Quote by Colum McCann

““... things just happen. It was a pathetic logic, but it was, at its core, true. Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance.””

Colum McCann

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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

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