Colum McCann Quotes
One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate, , , The obliteration of memory.
All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.
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.
Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.
The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no
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.
His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.
They say ol’ man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He’s the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.
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.
And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.
We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.