327 Quotes by Colum McCann

Watching them together slipped a knife between my ribs and hit my heart exactly.

Let 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.

In the end you should probably know your characters as well as you know yourself. Not only what they had for breakfast this morning, but what they wanted to have for breakfast.

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.

Sometimes you’ve got to go up to a very high floor to see what the past has done to the present.

There isn’t a story in the world that isn’t in part, at least, addressed to the past.

It’s nonviolence that is hard to deal with, whether coming from Israelis or Palestinians or both. It’s confusing to them.

The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth.

We do not talk about peace, we make peace.