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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
The stars looked like nail heads in the skypull 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
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
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
At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?
— 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
This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
— Colum McCann
The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no
— 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 sonhe 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
