Quotes by : Colum McCann

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about....

I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that....

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well....

And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why....

He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe....

One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way....

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

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day....

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.