Mark T. Sullivan

“shallows, grabbed the bow rope, and held on for dear life. “Give me”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini’s grasp like joy from a young widowed heart.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“By opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Pino was seized by something much more compelling and primal, as if Anna were not human but a spirit, a melody, a…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“But most people are essentially good. You have to believe that.” “Even the Nazis?” Father Re hesitated, and then said, “I can’t…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“sometime with them.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama,…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“In early February 2006, I was forty-seven and at the lowest point of my life.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Working a man to death is the same as shooting a man to death,” the priest said. “Just a different choice of…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“It came in rose fingers that fanned across a blue sky framed by snowcapped mountains”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Isn’t it strange how life is always taking you to places and to people you’re supposed to see and meet?”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“The Giants on the Mountain by Luigi Pirandello.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“If a bomb’s coming at you, it’s coming at you. You can’t go around worrying about it. Just go on doing what…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“sure where this was going. “So,” his uncle continued, “I think to myself that if the German radio hunters are looking for…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama,…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary.…

— 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…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“God damn it! Where’s my wine?”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“What do we do, Father?” “We have faith, Pino. We have faith and continue to do what is right.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“The world doesn’t work like this, he tried to tell himself. The world is not sick and evil like this.”

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“the Nazis extorted the Jews still remaining in Rome’s ghetto, demanding a payment of fifty kilos of gold in thirty-six hours in…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Your father is a wise man,” the cigar trader said. “Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we…

— 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

“It’s where they take every Jew they catch in Milan. Platform Twenty-One in the central station. They put them into cattle cars,…

— Mark T. Sullivan