I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean out of my ordinary life.

“McVries seemed not to have heard. "These things, they don't even bear the weigh…”

“Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.”

“I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I s…”

“The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.”