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

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


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



Long ago, long ago. 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.

Long ago, long ago. 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.



There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.



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

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



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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.



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

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



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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.



Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.





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