Byron Bradshaw

“Rather 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.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“The problem, though, with trying to be the ideal anything is that eventually the definition changes, and you realize that what you’d been pursuing all along was not a single truth but a set of expectations determined by context. You leave that context, and you leave behind those expectations, too, and then you’re nothing once again.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

“That’s what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“He wanted to hear his own footsteps to prove that he trod the ground.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin