Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

by Bono

can’t change the world but I can change the world in me.

Abandonment is probably the root of paranoia.

I’m not sure a professional psychologist would agree, but something in me understands that until we deal with our most traumatic traumas, there’s a part of us that stays at the age at which we encountered them.

girls are more interesting than boys, mentally, physically, spiritually.

“And I can tell you the division of our small island was much more to do with keeping Harland & Wolff in the union than to protect the Protestants.

from U2’s point of view, John Hume was the Martin Luther King of the Irish Troubles. Hume also set up the credit union in Derry, which helped Catholics into housing in

In August 2020, when he passed, I wrote a micro eulogy for the service in St. Eugene’s Cathedral in Derry: We were looking for a giant and found a man who made all our lives bigger. We were looking for some superpowers and found clarity of thought, kindness, and persistence. We were looking for revolution and found it in parish halls with tea and biscuits and late-night meetings under fluorescence. We were looking for a negotiator who understood that no one wins unless everyone wins and loses something and that peace is the only victory.

You’re owned by your ideas.

There is anyway a kind of off-color romance to a deserted seaside town in the winter,

If she loves books, there is nowhere she can’t go;

Great friendships explain why we hold on to this life so tightly because it disappears so quickly.

The answer, he told me, was to be found in reading. Can it be that simple? It was books, he said, that made him a better man.

The success story that is Ireland was not written for us, it’s a story we wrote for ourselves.

Love. That’s a big word to throw around.

“If you’re the best thing about me then why am I walking away?”

“It’s our strengths rather than our weaknesses that often hold us back.”