Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and — Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience
Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and — Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience
Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and — Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience
Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and — Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience
Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and — Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience
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Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?

— Roy L. Pickering Jr., Matters of Convenience
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