Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
Colum McCannWe have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.
Colum McCannHe told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just another stone in the way of his God.
Colum McCann