Cobwebs Quote by Colum McCann

“This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.”

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“Once we had filled each other with desire, not remembrance.”

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“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.”

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“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.”

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

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Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

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The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear…

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To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

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Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

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