Colum McCann Quotes About Skins

Quotes about: Skins

• People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

  Colum McCann

  Thinking, Self, People

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.267, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.

  Colum McCann

  Past, Thinking, Skins

• That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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