327 Quotes by Colum McCann

It will not be over until we talk.

I can still to this day hear my folks whispering and laughing before they went off to sleep: perhaps it is all I want to recall, perhaps our stories should stop on a dime, maybe things could begin and end right there, at the moment of laughter, but things don’t begin and end really, I suppose; they just keep on going.

Apeirogon: a shape with a countably infinite number of sides.

The most excellent jihad is that for the conquest of self.

You are a dancer for only a part of your life. The rest of the time you are walking around, thinking about it!

And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn’t happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.

Was there not wage slavery? Were there not the chains of financial oppression?

He looks like the sort of man who can’t afford to leave, and doesn’t want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

Fear makes money, and it makes laws, and it takes land, and it builds settlements, and fear likes to keep everyone silent.