“Maybe you could drive yourself crazy trying to chart backward all the causes and effects, all the ends and means, tracing everything to some original sin that may or may not have actually occurred but that people accepted as true,… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
“The right thing was confusing, and difficult, and sometimes Jason wondered if it was in fact a nonexistent ideal, like heaven or the American… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
“So although only one of them had seen her face, and that just for a second, they let her disappear into the night, which… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
“She had written Darcy the letter and posted it from her husband's tenth-story office while he was away in some strumpet's bed. And then… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
“Atlanta, Georgia. Two parts Confederate racist to two parts Negro to one part something-that-doesn't-quiet-have-a-name-for-it-yet. Neither city nor country but some odd combination, a once… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
“They had each survived into adulthood by proceeding warily, yet now they were expected to walk with a heavy step and newfound power through… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
“Because here was what none of them wanted to admit, Leo thought, the thing they were simply too blind or angry or spoiled to… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
“And what a city! The perfect geometric layout, the wide avenues and clean sidewalks, all the monuments bathes in celestial light. The contemps around… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
“The first time Negro officers had been needed in a courtroom, the judge had refused to let them enter in uniform, demanding that they… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
“Another time he felt himself reenacting a conversation with father, a long talk about duty and honor and all the reasons why enlisting was… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected. — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
