Songdogs Quotes

“On describing balding - "wild emigrating hair”
― Colum McCann, Songdogs

“Memory is three-quarters imagination and all the rest is lies.”
― Colum McCann, Songdogs

“When you come into a rich man's house, the only place to split is in his face.”
― Colum McCann, Songdogs

“Years later, in America, I was told that Navajo Indians believed coyotes ushered in the Big Bang of the world with their song, stood on the rim of nothingness, before time, shoved their pointed muzzles in the air, and howled the world into existence at their feet. The Indians called them longdogs. The universe was etched with their howls, sound merging into sound, the beginning of all other songs.”
― Colum McCann, Songdogs

“And now I wonder what the old man remembers about her these days. Maybe nothing. Maybe silence has cured him of memory . Maybe there's an absolute vacuum in the anathema of age”
― Colum McCann, Songdogs

“It was as if by taking a photo he could, at any moment, rein habit an older life - one where a body didn't droop, or hair didn't fall out, or a future didn't have to exist”
― Colum McCann, Songdogs