Famous Colum McCann Quotes

  • One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. – 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

  • Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off. – Colum McCann

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

  • It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. – Colum McCann

    It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.– Colum McCann

  • We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. – Colum McCann

    We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.– Colum McCann

  • Pain’s nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get. – Colum McCann

    Pain’s nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.– Colum McCann

  • The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth. – Colum McCann

    The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth.– Colum McCann

  • 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

    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

  • Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. – Colum McCann

    Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.– Colum McCann