"...he was a crack of light under the door, and yet the door was shut to him. Only bits and pieces of him would leak out and he would end up barricaded behind that which he had penetrated."

- p. 67: Book One - All Respects to Heaven, I Like It Here
“Let the Great World Spin” by: Colum McCann - 2009 Random House Trade Paperback Edition

"Theirs was a loneliness pasted upon loneliness. It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from."

- p. 59: Book One - All Respects to Heaven, I Like It Here
“Let the Great World Spin” by: Colum McCann - 2009 Random House Trade Paperback Edition

"He would look at her as if it were quite possible he wasn't ever going to see her again."

- p. 57: Book One - All Respects to Heaven, I Like It Here
“Let the Great World Spin” by: Colum McCann - 2009 Random House Trade Paperback Edition

"There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water-it has memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream."

- p. 57: Book One - All Respects to Heaven, I Like It Here
“Let the Great World Spin” by: Colum McCann - 2009 Random House Trade Paperback Edition

"You know, I have a dream every night that I'm running my lips down along her spine, like a skiff down a river."

- p. 56: Book One - All Respects to Heaven, I Like It Here
“Let the Great World Spin” by: Colum McCann - 2009 Random House Trade Paperback Edition

"Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get."

- p. 55: Book One - All Respects to Heaven, I Like It Here
“Let the Great World Spin” by: Colum McCann - 2009 Random House Trade Paperback Edition

"I stand in the mess of myself."

- p. 55: Book One - All Respects to Heaven, I Like It Here
“Let the Great World Spin” by: Colum McCann - 2009 Random House Trade Paperback Edition