Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

Either things grow and change or they die.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.