Mark T. Sullivan

“I will give you some advice, Vorarbeiter. Advice that could change your life.” “Oui, mon général?” “Doing favors,” Leyers said. “They help…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“How do you find happiness?” Anna paused, then said, “You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“we can’t stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we’re frightened. If we lose love, all is lost.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“How do men think of such wickedness?” Anna asked as wax dripped down the candle and pooled about the holder. “Don’t they…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“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

“Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can’t fathom.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“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

“You know, my young friend, I will be ninety years old next year, and life is still a constant surprise to me.…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“You know, my young friend, I will be ninety years old next year, and life is still a constant surprise to me.…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“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.…

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“Pino saw the trials of the past few weeks in a different light, and he felt excited and filled with new purpose.…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“We never know what will happen next, what we will see, and what important person will come into our life, or what…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“we can’t stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we’re frightened.”

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“men arguing over nothing but the sheer Italian love of verbal battle and mock outrage.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Pino shrugged. “Maybe he liked the sound of it. Pino Lella.” Mimo snorted. “You do live in a fantasy world.” They”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“All great things come from love, don’t they?” “I guess they do,” Anna said, and looked away. “The worst things, too.”

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“the world. They died in the 1980s.”

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“No good-byes among old friends.”

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“Right there—listening and complimenting—you’re ahead of eighty percent of every guy on the face of the earth.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“But the Nazi occupation of Italy and the Catholic underground railroad, which was formed to save the Italian Jews, have received scant…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Let not your hearts be troubled,’” the cardinal of Milan said. “Those six words of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, are…

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“to the Piazzale Loreto and machine-gunned them to death. I saw . . .” He broke down. “Tullio was one of them.” Uncle Albert…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful.”

— Mark T. Sullivan