Twist Quotes

“I suppose we go out to sea because we want, eventually, to come home. I know this now, but it was new to me then. The best way to experience home is to lose it for a while. Then, when it is gone, you can know what it is. You can yearn to return to it. It is a form of wounding. You welcome the scar so it will remind you of where you once were.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“What was it Pascal had written? All of our problems stem from our inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“It was no great surprise that the world felt as if it were in chains since they actually trawled the ocean floor and tied us up in easy knots.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“The most casual things can, after all, twist our tired hearts.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many times over. We flake away and become new. Whatever we are now, we are not the stuff from which we were originally made. All the people we once were. All the people we had once hoped to be.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“Everything gets fixed and we all stay broken.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“The wonder of things is that they were ever created in the first place. Maybe that was the simplicity we needed. Everything is made to be disassembled. Not all of it can be repaired. All there is is the trying.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“The mind begs for logic but gets the actual world. We fall back on invention.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“Stupid to think that our wine will never turn.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“Just because the truth is ignored doesn’t mean it’s not true.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“Who can say where anything truly begins? The cloud, the raindrop, the original speck of dust around which water collects? We can only ever locate the middle when we get to the end. And then, at the absolute end, what’s the point in finding the middle, or even the beginning?”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“If the ocean was a bank, they’d have saved it a long time ago.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“The backspin of memory lands us in the strangest of places.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“Those of us who reject divinity, who understand that there is no order, there is no arc, that we are night travelers on a great tundra, that stars can’t guide us, will understand that the only work that will matter, will be the work done by us. Ta-Nehisi Coates”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“Those whom the gods love grow young.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“The days come and go. They bird themselves against the widow and end up at our, stunned.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“the flotsam of our longings, the jetsam of our truths,”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“There’s an odd grace in not just settling for the simple Fuck off.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“can’t go on, must go on”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“There was something very calm and unrushed about him. If there was a clock inside him instructing time it was ticking slower than the time pieces inside of the rest of us. It wasn’t that he tamped down the moment or tightened it or obscured it. On the contrary he gave air to it, let it hover, made it new.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“The wild crunch of coincidence...”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“If you can’t shake something free you go back and grasp it.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“She studied fluidity.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“There is no logic. The world is messy. The answers lie in the beyond.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“I suppose we end up surviving by our ability to forget.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“takotsubo, which had surfaced in my mind on the very first day”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“I felt myself floating towards the shadow of the dreamer I once had been.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“She whispered my name and she sounded like the first person ever to say it.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“I was hooked on the plot of the waves.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“All that traffic on the floor of the unknown.”
― Colum McCann, Twist