Colum McCann Ordinary Quotations

One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.