She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs– she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.
– Colum McCann –
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I suppose I’ve always known that it’s hard to be just one person. the key is in the door and it can always be opened.
– Colum McCann –
Ph : Sam Haskins
There was something of the beautiful failure about her.
– Colum McCann – Let the Great World Spin
Ph : Sam Haskins
No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.
– Colum McCann –
Well, I’d say fuck too, if I were me. I’d say it backward and forward and around the block, fuck this and fuck that and fuck it all at once, twice, three times.
– Colum McCann –
Ph : Billy Kidd
Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don’t function for what things aren’t.
– 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 – 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
Ph : Marco Michieletto
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
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God,
one you could find in the grime of the everyday…
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.
He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.
– Colum McCann – Let the Great World Spin
Ph : Stefano Tripodi
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