Emptying the ocean with a thimble again, our thimbles so tiny, and the ocean of need so huge.
Have you ever been to Chicago? he asked
He generally traveled to Europe four or five times a year. The pharmaceutical empire he ran had research centers in Germany, Switzerland, and France, and huge laboratories and factories in England. It...
Holiday or business, monsieur? The customs officer looked unconcerned as he stamped Peter’s passport, and barely glanced up at him after looking at the picture. He had blue eyes and dark hair and look...
I need it. I want it. I want to feel at peace, my soul at rest. I don’t want this pus-filled anger to gnaw at me night and day, my rage just a hollow tomb that I enclose myself in day and night … It’s...
It makes you realize how small you are, and no matter what you plan, God has a bigger idea, and you’re not the one in charge.
Jim said she would go to prison for sure because of the amount she had stolen, and there was probably more. I can bring over dinner if you want. I’m just going to pack and go to bed. I hate that early...
Oh sweet girl, he said, feeling his heart go out to her, giving her everything he had tried to keep from her, and suddenly he knew what had been wrong between them. He had never dared to lover her.
On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason a...
She had no idea where the future would lead her or what it would look like, but whatever happened, she was determined to survive it.
She lives in California and Paris.
She wasn't on heroin then, but she was a mess. I thought I was going to put Humpty Dumpty back together and turn her into a princess. Instead, she turned into scrambled eggs, and always was
Stanley Perlman. She hurried out of the building at One Market Plaza, stepped off the curb, and hailed a cab. It occurred to her, as it always did, that one of these days when she met with him, it wou...
That’s funny. I
The ideal person is not the one with whom one can be happy, but the one without whom one can’t be happy. —Anonymous
We all have our own crazy ideas about what makes relationships work. The trick seems to be finding someone with similar ideas, or compatible ones at least.
What is a date? A date is when two people, who hardly know each other, go out to dinner, and push their food around their plates nervously, while trying to ask as many questions as possible in the sho...
Wilson-Donovan had already submitted their application to the FDA in January, months before. Based on the information they were developing now, they were going to ask for Vicotec to be put on the Fast...
You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.
Agreement
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