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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader. — Colum McCann

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

There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences. — Colum McCann

although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness — Colum McCann

What monstrous things, our pasts, especially when they have been lovely. — Colum McCann

The stars looked like nail heads in the sky
pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall. — Colum McCann

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven ... — Colum McCann

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours. — Colum McCann

Darkness doesn't fall, he thought as he swayed to the radio, it rises up from the bottom of the sea and begins to breathe around us. — Colum McCann

That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past. — Colum McCann

It's like moving through a delicious fog. — Colum McCann

The wind surged in a roar, then died down like it was pondering some heavy shit, then started back up like before. — Colum McCann

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self. — Colum McCann

I think we're moving toward moments of grace and understanding. And I think these things take time. — Colum McCann

I'm not God.
Then find someone who is, man. — Colum McCann

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. — Colum McCann

At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way? — Colum McCann

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world. — Colum McCann

My wardrobe is drab. I could spend six weeks in the same jeans. Most everything I have is blue or black, but certainly not cool. — Colum McCann

We could not have found peace unless the desire for it was already here. — Colum McCann

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own. — Colum McCann

This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for. — Colum McCann

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. — Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy. — Colum McCann

For all its imagined moments, literature works in unimaginable ways. — Colum McCann

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it. — Colum McCann

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations. — Colum McCann

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me. — Colum McCann

- What is it about wine, Harry?
- What d'ya mean?
- What is it that cures us?
- Made to glorify the gods. And dull the idiots. — Colum McCann

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. — Colum McCann

But being rational about it didn't cure it. — Colum McCann

you soon find out how loud the silence really is. everything unsaid leads eventually to what is said. — Colum McCann

There is always room for at least two truths. — Colum McCann

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last. — Colum McCann

The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living. — Colum McCann

I was a raw, quiet child, and God was already a bore to me. — Colum McCann

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. — Colum McCann

I suppose I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. the key is in the door and it can always be opened. — Colum McCann

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there. — Colum McCann

There comes a point when, tired of losing, you decide to stop failing yourself, or at least to try, or to send up the final flare, one last chance. — Colum McCann

In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can't stop the lines in time, so I'm a novelist. — Colum McCann

So, leave the cynics be. Out-cynic them. Step into that elsewhere. Believe that your story is bigger than yourself. In — Colum McCann

It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view. — Padraic Colum

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last. — Colum McCann

One goes up in a plane knowing, sometimes, that not all of you is going to come down. — Colum McCann

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it. — Colum McCann

And what is it we give our children anyway, except the ability to not become us? — Colum McCann

The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction. — Colum McCann

She had told Jaslyn once that everyone knows where they are from when they know where it is they want to be buried. — Colum McCann

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't. — Colum McCann

Then the clouds curtsy in, the rain kneels upon the land, and the weather knocks them back a whole day and a half. — Colum McCann

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own. — Colum McCann

He caught a glimpse in the mirror the other day, and how in tarnation did I acquire the face of my father's father? — Colum McCann

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence. — Colum McCann

A single man, he said he loved women but preferred engines. — Colum McCann

The overexamined life... It's not worth living. — Colum McCann

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it's still impossible to land exactly where we took off. — Colum McCann

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption. — Colum McCann

Sooner or later they all turn their backs. They all leave. That's gospel. I've been there. I've seen it. They all do. — Colum McCann

And it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. — Colum McCann

banging saucepans to ring in the new year? — Colum McCann

Someone was high or brilliant or both. — Colum McCann

O woman shapely as a swan. — Padraic Colum

If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures. — Colum McCann

They bobbed back and forth, little Halloween apples. — Colum McCann

What was life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves if incident. Stacked at odd angles to each other. — Colum McCann

A bottle of gin sat in the center of the table. More emptiness than gin in the bottle. — Colum McCann

When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us. — Colum McCann

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly. — Colum McCann

Oh, the mind itself is a deep, deep well. Lower me down and let me touch water. — Colum McCann

An optimist is a braver cynic. — Colum McCann

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year! — Colum McCann

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. — Colum McCann

He could be in any mood or any place and, unbidden, it returned. — Colum McCann

The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no — Colum McCann

Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully. — Colum McCann

He was there, he said, to raise just a single hat, but eventually that hat would raise the heavens. He would go forth as a slave no more. — Colum McCann

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. — Colum McCann

If your life doesn't flash in front of your eyes, old boy, does that mean you've had no life at all? — Colum McCann

I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have. — Colum McCann

Nobody falls halfway — Colum McCann

He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake. — Colum McCann

So you want to be a dancer? I asked. I want to dance better than I already do, he said. — Colum McCann

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. — Colum McCann

The smallest moments: they return, dwell, endure. — Colum McCann

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. — Colum McCann

At a certain stage every single thing can be a sign. — Colum McCann

I suppose one finally learns, after much searching, that we really only belong to ourselves. — Colum McCann

He was holding the image of his own people up: sometimes it was weight enough to stagger under. — Colum McCann

I would change the knowledge I have into wisdom, so that the things that are to happen will be changed into the best that may be. — Padraic Colum

The disconnect between his mouth and his mind. That's where the camera came in. It was the unspoken thing between him and the others. — Colum McCann

He was the son of his son
he was here, he was left behind. — Colum McCann

He was Loki, a being who only half belonged to the Gods; his father was the Wind Giant. — Padraic Colum

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. — Colum McCann

To Meath of the pastures,
From wet hills by the sea,
Through Leitrim and Longford,
Go my cattle and me. — Padraic Colum

It was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise. — Colum McCann

Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get. — Colum McCann

Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs. — Colum McCann

Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. — Colum McCann

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. — Colum McCann