“It all made Pino realize that the earth did not know war, that nature would go on no matter what horror one… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“men arguing over nothing but the sheer Italian love of verbal battle and mock outrage.” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“As far as Pino was concerned, wars were about murder and thievery. One army killed to steal the hill; then another killed… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“dance and love on the back side of war. Pain and grief sawed through Pino. This torment was his punishment, he decided.… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Pino at that moment seemed to me like a portal into a long-ago world where the ghosts of war and courage, the… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“To be young and in love. Isn’t it remarkable that something like that can happen in the middle of a war? It… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I will give you some advice, Vorarbeiter. Advice that could change your life.” “Oui, mon général?” “Doing favors,” Leyers said. “They help wondrously over… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“How do you find happiness?” Anna paused, then said, “You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have.” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“we can’t stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we’re frightened. If we lose love, all is lost.” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“How do men think of such wickedness?” Anna asked as wax dripped down the candle and pooled about the holder. “Don’t they fear for… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“It all made Pino realize that the earth did not know war, that nature would go on no matter what horror one man might… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can’t fathom.” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“forty-nine thousand Jews in Italy at the time of the Nazi invasion, some forty-one thousand evaded arrest or survived the concentration camps.” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“You know, my young friend, I will be ninety years old next year, and life is still a constant surprise to me. We never… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“You know, my young friend, I will be ninety years old next year, and life is still a constant surprise to me. We never… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Anna said. “I’m a student of happiness, you know. It’s all I really want—happiness, every day for the rest of my life. Sometimes happiness… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Pino saw the trials of the past few weeks in a different light, and he felt excited and filled with new purpose. “You want… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“We never know what will happen next, what we will see, and what important person will come into our life, or what important person… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
