State of Terror

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

‘It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.’ ”

Though the door wasn’t locked. She was just on the other side, longing to admit him. The key was asking that second question. The third would get him across the threshold, to where she kept her heart.

And there was a reason his mother had married Quinn Adams. Who did ask how she felt. And who listened to the answer. And asked more questions. Not because he was curious, which he probably was, but because he cared.