The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.


Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel (ed. Bantam, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307414144


The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or...

The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or...

The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or...

The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or...