A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.