“In early February 2006, I was forty-seven and at the lowest point of my life.” — Mark T. Sullivan Life Copy Share Image
“Forgotten Front.” Much of the amnesia was caused by Italians who’d” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“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 Israel 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 Cigar 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
“They found the Jews, bound their wrists and ankles, and threw them into Lake Maggiore, where they were machine-gunned to death.” — Mark T. Sullivan Death Copy Share Image
“Someone very wise once told me that by opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole.” — Mark T. Sullivan Scar Copy Share Image
“men arguing over nothing but the sheer Italian love of verbal battle and mock outrage.” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“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 Cigar Copy Share Image
“But you are so full of love for me, it beams from you, makes me feel beautiful, which makes you beautiful to… — Mark T. Sullivan Beautiful Copy Share Image
“People are dying and you’re playing music?” Several people came into the hallway behind his mother, including his aunt, uncle, and father.… — Mark T. Sullivan Death Copy Share Image
“Pino dove into the snow and hugged the base of an old tree. Bullets raked the grove east to west and back… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Pino remembered her telling him that she didn’t believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking… — Mark T. Sullivan Good life Copy Share Image
“that she didn’t believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful,… — Mark T. Sullivan Good life Copy Share Image
“I’m busy at the moment, Albert,” replied Pino’s Austrian aunt Greta, who was waiting on the Nazi. She was a tall, thin… — 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 Courage Copy Share Image
“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 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… — Mark T. Sullivan Nature 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.… — Mark T. Sullivan Better tomorrow Copy Share Image
“But after everything, and even when the skies turn scarlet and threatening, I still believe that if we are lucky enough to… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Doing favors,” Leyers said. “They help wondrously over the course of a lifetime. When you have done men favors, when you look… — Mark T. Sullivan Law of nature 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… — Mark T. Sullivan Better tomorrow Copy Share Image
“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 Better tomorrow 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.… — Mark T. Sullivan Parenting Copy Share Image
“Alberto Ascari says there have been atrocities, Father,” Pino said. “The Nazis have killed priests helping Jews. They’ve pulled them right off… — Mark T. Sullivan Fellow man Copy Share Image
“By noon, Pino was sitting on the steps of La Scala where he could see the front of the Hotel Regina and… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“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 Death 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 Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“The best thing is to grieve for the people you loved and lost, and then welcome and love the new people life… — 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 Peace Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“every day, no matter how flawed. And we must have faith in God, and in the Universe, and in a better tomorrow,… — Mark T. Sullivan Better tomorrow Copy Share Image
“Pino shrugged. “Maybe he liked the sound of it. Pino Lella.” Mimo snorted. “You do live in a fantasy world.” They” — Mark T. Sullivan Fantasy world Copy Share Image
“What do we do, Father?” “We have faith, Pino. We have faith and continue to do what is right.” — Mark T. Sullivan Faith Copy Share Image
“That sounded like love, Pino thought. When I fall in love, I think it will feel just like that.” — Mark T. Sullivan Fall in love Copy Share Image
“We have ears everywhere, you know, Father. The Gestapo is like God. We hear all things.” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini’s grasp like joy from a young widowed heart.” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“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 Judaism Copy Share Image
