The Revisionists Quotes

“He was in the far too familiar position of being amazed by his own stupidity.”
― Thomas Mullen, The Revisionists

“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.”
― Thomas Mullen, The Revisionists

“The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. Past events are described in a fictitious manner, future events are described as they will indeed occur, unless they are disrupted by historical agitators, which is beyond the author's control. For now.”
― Thomas Mullen, The Revisionists

“And what a city! The perfect geometric layout, the wide avenues and clean sidewalks, all the monuments bathes in celestial light. The contemps around me hav eno idea how long it will take to rebuild something like this. Do they see the beauty around them? Are they dizzy from the heights on this pinnacle their civilization is teetering upon? No--they troop along, necks crooked into their ancient phones like bent marionettes. Their right cheeks glow.”
― Thomas Mullen, The Revisionists

“Maybe you could drive yourself crazy trying to chart backward all the causes and effects, all the ends and means, tracing everything to some original sin that may or may not have actually occurred but that people accepted as true, or true enough. Maybe staring into the eyes of all that history was a dangerous thing to do, as her mother had calmly warned her. Maybe you were supposed to move forward armed with just enough history to help you figure out the present without obsessing over the past. But how much was enough? Where was the gray area between ignorance and obsession?”
― Thomas Mullen, The Revisionists

“Maybe you were supposed to move forward armed with just enough history to help you figure out the present without obsessing over the past. But how much was enough? Where was the gray area between ignorance and obsession?”
― Thomas Mullen, The Revisionists

“Almost makes you wonder if someone was guiding us, strange as that sounds.
I feel a swelling in my chest, and I honestly don't know if it's pity or jealousy of her belief that God or her dead brother can reach out and affect her life like that. I take her head in my hands and hold her closer, wondering which of us is lost and which is guiding the other someplace new.”
― Thomas Mullen, The Revisionists