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“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.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“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.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book One: All Respects to Heaven, I Like it Here

“… it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“With all respects to heaven, I like it here.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“There are no days more full than those we go back to.”

Colum McCann Zoli

Source: Zoli

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

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.”

Colum McCann book TransAtlantic

Source: TransAtlantic

“It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.”

Colum McCann Zoli

Source: Zoli

“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin