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420 pages, Paperback
First published April 24, 2013
“You want to know what I am? I am shattered, that’s what I am. There are tiny pieces of patience scattered all over.”
“I’d like a piece of Patience.”
“I was starting to think she was a gift from the devil himself. She was a pretty box of temptation wrapped in a forcefield of police officers waiting to arrest me, or a box of sweets with a big ass invisible mousetrap sitting on the cover.”
“I’d die before I trapped her and made her a prisoner of my world. Patience would give me one hundred percent of herself and I knew she’d run full force into hell without a thought for consequences. I knew this because I wanted to do the same when it came to her, but one of us had to be smart.
“The broken parts of me were on the mend and his soul was the glue that would hold them all together.”
Everything about him was dark; yet there was a tiny light inside of him that flashed on occasionally, and as sad as it sounded, I was willing to sit in the darkness and wait for that brief bright moment.