Quotes by : Colum McCann

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness....

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

An optimist is a braver cynic.

I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and that....

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

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

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves.....

Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone....

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

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.