Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. - Colum McCann
I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t. - Colum McCann
One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. - Colum McCann