8 Quotes by Thomas Mullen

The right thing was confusing, and difficult, and sometimes Jason wondered if it was in fact a nonexistent ideal, like heaven or the American dream. There was no right thing. You did what you did for whatever reasons occurred to you at the time, depending on whichever emotion was running thickest in your blood. Your desire and fear and adrenaline and longing. You made your choice and came up with the reasons later.

His voice, the very sound of rolling eyes.

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.

Marriage – as its veterans know well – is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn’t expected.

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.

He even assembled coops for poultry, not unaware of the irony that he was a prisoner building a prison for lesser creatures.

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.

He was in the far too familiar position of being amazed by his own stupidity.