Enigma (FBI Thriller #21)

by Catherine Coulter

I’m proud of you. It’s hard to crack jokes when you’re terrified. You doing better?” “No, but I’m sucking it up, and insulting you helps.”

“As long as people need hope, some drug will claim to provide it.”

Most everything we human beings value, everything we call wisdom and experience, is a consequence of our being mortal and knowing it. We are granted a finite number of years and everything we strive for is shaped by the inevitable fact of death.

I wonder what the world would be like where no one died except by accident?”