Colum McCannLet it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls. ✨ Colum McCan… ▶372Truth
Colum McCannPart of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it … ▶352HopeTime
Colum McCannWe seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experi… ▶374LifeReadingTime
Colum McCannEven 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… ▶363HumanityHumorTime
Colum McCannThe stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall. ✨ Colum McCann (2009). Let The Great World Spin, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishin… ▶363Life
Colum McCannHe told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--… ▶331HopeTime
Colum McCannWhere happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important. ✨ Colum McCann (2008). Zoli: A Novel, p.146, Random House331Reading
Colum McCannHe might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.332DeathLove
Colum McCannIt struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. ✨ Colum McCann (2009). Let The Great World Spin, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing312Reflection
Colum McCannMemory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off. ✨ Colum McCann (2008). Zoli: A Novel, p.66, Random House323Reading
Colum McCannShe takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too… ▶301Sadness
Colum McCannHe didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, h… ▶335TimeTruth
Colum McCannThere 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. ✨ Colum McCa… ▶357Time
Colum McCannShe's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours. ✨ Colum McCann (2009). Let the Great Worl… ▶357ReadingThoughtTime
Colum McCannTéa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years379Truth
Colum McCannIt was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful. ✨ Colum McCann (2009). Let The Great World Spin, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing313Reading
Colum McCannHe said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites. … ▶347HumanityLoveTime
Colum McCannSome people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who'v… ▶3610HumanityLoveThought
Colum McCannWe stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough. ✨ Colum McCann (2009). Let The Great World… ▶337Thought
Colum McCannI know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and noth… ▶359LifeReadingTime
Colum McCannI gave them all the truth and none of the honesty. ✨ Colum McCann (2009). Let The Great World Spin, p.261, Bloomsbury Publishing327Truth
Colum McCannWords are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't. ✨ Colum McCann (2009). Let the Great World Spin: A Novel, p.155, Random … ▶305ReadingTime
Colum McCannI think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.272Thought
Colum McCannThe city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shock… ▶273Reading
Colum McCannThat was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children o… ▶295LoveThoughtTime
Colum McCannI told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish … ▶273Love
Colum McCannShe wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dan… ▶317Life
Colum McCannYou can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven. ✨ Colum McCann (2009). Let the Great World Spin: A Novel, p.83, Random House284DeathReading
Colum McCannYou cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.3410ReadingThought
Colum McCannA book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.274Reading
