Zoli Quotes

“There are no days more full than those we go back to.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“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.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. ”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“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.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“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.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“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.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“There are those of us who haven't yet told our stories, or refuse to tell them, and so we become them: we hide away inside the memory until we can no longer stand the shell or the shock - perhaps I must tell it before it is forgotten or becomes like everything else, something else.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“...only when a man dies can his life acquire a beginning, middle, and an end: up until then we are constantly unfinished, even the midpoint cannot be located. So only the final word finds the middle word and this, in a way becomes a verse--one's death explains oneself.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“There are moments we return to. We are in theme. We rest there and there is nothing else.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“I felt exasperated by her, always turning, always changing, always making me feel as if I was looking for oxygen--how much like fresh air and how much, at the same time, like drowning.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli