Colum McCann, Let The Great World Spin Quotes
There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
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.
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.
I'm only telling you on the truth, " he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.
That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.
Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.
Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.
The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.