“Tullio and his date leave, thinking once again how much he wanted” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“we can’t stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we’re frightened.” — Mark T. Sullivan Fellow man Copy Share Image
“shallows, grabbed the bow rope, and held on for dear life. “Give me” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“All great things come from love, don’t they?” “I guess they do,” Anna said, and looked away. “The worst things, too.” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“It came in rose fingers that fanned across a blue sky framed by snowcapped mountains” — Mark T. Sullivan Blue sky Copy Share Image
“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 Love Copy Share Image
“For what? Putting your boot on another man’s head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s all it takes for the future to exist, Pino thought. You must imagine it first. You must dream it first.” — Mark T. Sullivan Dream Copy Share Image
“in a matter of seconds, his faith in God, in life, in love, and in a better tomorrow drained away to empty.” — Mark T. Sullivan Better tomorrow Copy Share Image
“Right there—listening and complimenting—you’re ahead of eighty percent of every guy on the face of the earth.” — Mark T. Sullivan Nature Copy Share Image
“You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful.” — Mark T. Sullivan Blessings Copy Share Image
“we must give thanks for this day and for every day, no matter how flawed. Bow your heads, give your gratitude to… — Mark T. Sullivan Better tomorrow Copy Share Image
“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 Israel Copy Share Image
“Faith is a strange creature,” Schuster said. “Like a falcon that nests year after year in the same place, but then flies… — Mark T. Sullivan Faith Copy Share Image
“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 Milan Copy Share Image
“Young men, we must give thanks for this day and for every day, no matter how flawed. Bow your heads, give your… — Mark T. Sullivan Better tomorrow Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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
“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
“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 Change 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… — Mark T. Sullivan Change your life Copy Share Image
“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 Death 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 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
“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
“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 can’t stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we’re frightened. If we lose love, all is lost.” — Mark T. Sullivan Fellow man 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
“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 Life 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
“The Alps had taught him not to fret and whine at difficult circumstances. It was a waste of energy.” — Mark T. Sullivan Alps Copy Share Image
“how can you survive what life throws at you if you cannot laugh and love, and are they not the same thing?” — Mark T. Sullivan Comedy Copy Share Image
“By opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole.” — Mark T. Sullivan Scar Copy Share Image
“Vengeance,” Pino said calmly, feeling weirdly out of his body. “Italians believe in it, mon général. Italians believe bloodshed is good for… — Mark T. Sullivan Italy Copy Share Image
“You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and… — Mark T. Sullivan Leader Copy Share Image
“The world doesn’t work like this, he tried to tell himself. The world is not sick and evil like this.” — Mark T. Sullivan World 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 Change 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
