13 Quotes by Mike Mullin

There are no atheist in foxholes, kids.

I was glad nobody had noticed.I might have been offended if my uncle had punched me in the shoulder and said something inane like, "so you`re a man now.

Hunger of choice is a painful luxury; hunger of necessity is terrifying torture.

The few trees still upright were stripped of their branches, lonely flagpoles without a nation to claim them.

When I was eleven or twelve, we had this real old guy as a Sunday school teacher. Mom said he'd been in some war: Iraq, Vietnam … I forget. Anyway, almost every class he'd say, "There are no atheists in foxholes, kids." At the time, it was just weird. What did we know about either atheists or foxholes? Nothing. But I sort of understood it now.

A night spent spooning with your girlfriend isn't nearly so exciting when your uncle is curled up against your other side.

For the first time ever, I felt ashamed of my species. The volcano had taken our homes, our food, our automobiles, and our airplanes, but it hadn’t taken our humanity. No, we’d given that up on our own.

A librarian can’t live by books alone, and I wouldn’t eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.

Green hills wash sunlight blue.