327 Quotes by Colum McCann

I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.

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

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven...

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.

She'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.

He 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.