Marie

“The old days, they arrive back in the oddest ways, suddenly taut, breaking the surface, a salmon leap.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

“The children looked like remnants of themselves. Spectral. Some were naked to the waist.Many of them had sores on their faces. None had shoes. He could see the structures of them through their skin. The bony residue of their lives.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic