Thomas Mullen Quotes

#1. Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.

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#2. His voice, the very sound of rolling eyes.

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#3. Because here was what none of them wanted to admit, Leo thought, the thing they were simply too blind or angry or spoiled to realize: this life was the best it could possibly be.

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#4. Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.

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#5. I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

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#6. now they were expected to walk with a heavy step and newfound power through their neighborhoods. In every other part of the city, however, they were still expected to vanish, or worse.

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#7. Since the white cops ventured over only when they needed a Negro to conveniently arrest for some crime, the residents had no protection from pickpockets and thieves and burglars, scofflaws and roughnecks, moonshiners and drunks and rapists.

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#8. She had written Darcy the letter and posted it from her husband's tenth-story office while he was away in some strumpet's bed. And then she'd transformed herself into a bird, and then an anvil, and then a corpse.

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