Chapter 11

• There's a long pause as her eyes glaze over, and the urge to cry hits her hard. She misses him. Maybe because of what today is, but the aching longing inside of her to break down and beg him to come home overwhelms her, and suddenly she wants to be that little kid again who used to hide in his arms when she was scared of the world.
• The Leon that cared, the Leon that was present in their first four months of marriage before they started fighting all the time. The Leon who held her at her parent's funeral and took care of her for days after when she couldn't get out of bed. She misses Leon, the eight-year-old who taught her how to ride a bike and gave her her first taste of candy floss when he took her to the children's circus when she was ten. He was her best friend.
• "If you're not hanging up, then I am. Goodnight."