327 Quotes by Colum McCann

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday.

One goes up in a plane knowing, sometimes, that not all of you is going to come down.

Mine is the apartment that receives all noises, even from the basement below. For one hundred and ten dollars a month, I feel as if I live inside a radio.

Neki misle da je ljubav kraj puta na kojem, ako imaš dovoljno sreće da ga pronađeš, staješ i ne tražiš novi. Drugi kažu da se ljubav pretvara u provaliju u koju padaš i više se ne možeš izvući, ali oni koji imaju takvog-takvog iskustva znaju da je ljubav nešto što se iz dana u dan mijenja i ovisno o tome koliko se boriš, ti je osvajaš, ili se hvataš za nju i ne puštaš, ili je gubiš, ali ponekad ljubavi jednostavno nema.

There are those of us who haven't yet told our stories, or refuse to tell them, and so we become them: we hide away inside the memory until we can no longer stand the shell or the shock - perhaps I must tell it before it is forgotten or becomes like everything else, something else.

The mailman carried around huge bags of gloom.

At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?

She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.

A single man, he said he loved women but preferred engines.