Zoli
Colum McCann
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There are no days more full than those we go back to.”
“Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.”
“Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.”
“Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.”
“She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.”
“...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. ”
“How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.”
“He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.”
“The worst burden in life is what others know about us. But maybe there is one burden even worse than this. It happens when they don't know about us, it is what they think about us when, in silence, they force us to be what they expect us to be. Even worse is how we become it and I, chonorroeja, have become it.”
“That the reason life is so strange is that we have simply no idea what is around the next corner, and it was an obvious idea but one most of us had learned to forget.”
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Book Keywords:
happiness, storytelling, borders, immigration, nostalgia, hate, memory
