Alyce

“Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many times over. We flake away and become new. Whatever we are now, we are not the stuff from which we were originally made. All the people we once were. All the people we had once hoped to be.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“The mind begs for logic but gets the actual world. We fall back on invention.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“Empathy is a liar. It seduces us with the impression of selflessness, yet whatever feelings we think we can fathom are confined by the extent of our own hearts. We are living on our own, in our separate bodies.”
― An Yu, Ghost Music

“If the ocean was a bank, they’d have saved it a long time ago.”
― Colum McCann, Twist