What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

Relationships are never chance events.

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.