Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
“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.”
“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.”
“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”
“Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.”
“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.”
“Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.”
“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.”
“Good days, they come around the oddest corners.”
“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.”
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