“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
―
Colum McCann,
Let the Great World Spin
“Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“Good days, they come around the oddest corners.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface.There is, I think, a fear of love.There is a fear of love.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“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, 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, Let the Great World Spin
“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.” ― Colum McCann, 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, Let the Great World Spin
“Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“Good days, they come around the oddest corners.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface.There is, I think, a fear of love.There is a fear of love.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“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, 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, Let the Great World Spin
“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.” ― Colum McCann, 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, Let the Great World Spin
“Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.” ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
