“There are those of us who haven’t yet told our stories, or refuse to tell them, and so we become them: we hide away inside the memory until we can no longer stand the shell or the shock – perhaps I must tell it before it is forgotten or becomes like everything else, something else.”

“There are those of us who haven’t yet told our stories, or refuse to tell them, and so we become them: we hide away inside the memory until we can no longer stand the shell or the shock – perhaps I must tell it before it is forgotten or becomes like everything else, something else.”

— Colum McCann