What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday... He consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.
Colum McCannThe stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.
Colum McCannLiterature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
Colum McCann