“Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.”
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.”
“This will be a good experience for you. Every man should know how to properly dismember a body.”
“Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.”
“I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..”
“You don’t always have to say what’s on your mind. You can keep it to yourself for the time being. That’s called patience.”