Her beam revealing ancient brick walls and the faint glimmer
I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.
Fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She
When you cannot see where you are going, when you do not know your final destination, every hour is its own eternity.
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
Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.
It's just something I'll have to live with... The possibility of getting sick. Not knowing if I'll live another two years or forty years. I keep telling myself, I could walk outside and get hit by a b...
Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.
Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home.
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...
You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask.
Mother, thought Claire, cannot knight her own son. It must be done by another man.
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
And for a moment she was left blessedly alone.
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...
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....
Why was it always women who had to do the forgiving? she’d wondered.
One’s true family is defined not by DNA but by love. In
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...
Maura moved quietly to the alcove. There she lit three candles for three women. One for Sister Ursula. One for Sister Camille. And one for a faceless leper whose name she would never know. She did not...
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