Author: Colum McCann

Cites

• Eduardo Galeano (1)
  • IN: TransAtlantic (2013) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that was.
    FROM: Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World, (1998), Book, Uruguay
• Louise Erdrich (1)
  • IN: This Side of Brightness (1998) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: We started dying before the snow and, like the snow, we continued to fall. It was surprising there were so many of us left to die.
    FROM: Tracks, (1988), Novel, US
• Aleksandar Hemon (1)
  • IN: Let the Great World Spin (2009) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.
    FROM: The Lazarus Project, (2008), Novel, Bosnia/ US
• William Maxwell (1)
  • IN: Dancer (2003) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: What we, or at any rate, I, refer to confidently as a memory -- meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion -- is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.
    FROM: So Long, See you Tomorrow, (1979), Novel, US

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• Elizabeth Berg (1)
  • IN: Once upon a Time, There Was You (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture is, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.
    FROM: Let the Great World Spin, (2009), Novel, Ireland