wash your dress in running water. dry it on the southern side of a rock. let them have four guesses and make them all wrong. take a fistful of snow in the summer heat. cook haluski in hot sweet butter. drink cold milk to clean your insides. be careful when you wake: breathing lets them know how asleep you are. don't hang your coat from a hook in the door. ignore curfew. remember weather by the voice of the wheel. do not become the fool they need you to become. change your name. lose your shoes. practice doubt. dress in oiled cloth around sickness. adore darkness. turn sideways in the wind. the changing of stories is a cheerful affair. give the impression of not having known.
Colum McCannThere are no days more full than those we go back to.
Colum McCannStichwörter: nostalgia
Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
Colum McCannStichwörter: happiness
Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.
Colum McCannStichwörter: storytelling
Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
Colum McCannStichwörter: memory
Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.
Colum McCannThe repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
Colum McCannStichwörter: history
The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
Colum McCannI am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it.
Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book
I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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