Colum McCann Heaven Quotations

She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

With all respects to heaven, I like it here.

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven...