My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical s...
That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary.
No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight....
An hour before her shift started, an hour before she was even supposed to be there, they rolled the first corpse through the door.
We’re all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it’s always such a surprise. The
They slept because they were exhausted and weak and because most human beings can learn to endure almost anything, even the cries of the tormented. It was not that their hearts had hardened; it was be...
What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was...
One’s true family is defined not by DNA but by love. In
Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else’s.
Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.
Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section.
Would have said, Not too hot,
Children are like fomites. What? Spreading infections everywhere they go.
Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.
Gradually the beep of the EKG slowed. Against the steady rhythm of that heartbeat, the two women gazed at each other. If Catherine had recognized a part of herself in Nina’s eyes, so, too, did Nina se...
He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.
Why was it always women who had to do the forgiving? she’d wondered.
Richard subtly slipped in the fact that he is thriller writer Richard Renwick, creator of MI5 hero Jackman Tripp. Unfortunately none of them had ever heard of Richard or his hero, which led to a prick...
There were perhaps one hundred billion galaxies in the universe, and each galaxy contained a hundred billion stars. How many of those stars had planets, and how many planets had life? Panspermia, the...
Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.
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