#patch

"All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you."

"Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't."

"I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day."

"Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?"

"I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape."

"If you can't feel, why did you kiss me?"Patch traced a finger along my collarbone, then headed south stopping at my heart. I felt it pounding through my skin. "Because I feel it here, in my heart,"he said quietly."

"Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right."

"Hang on, did you just call me Angel?"I asked."If I did?""I don't like it."He grinned. "It stays, Angel."

"I love you more than I think I should."

"One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for."

"Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him."

"You possess other people's...bodies."He accepted that statement with a nod."Do you want to possess my body?""I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them."

"Are you gloating inside? That's what this is about, isn't it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!"[...]"I get that you're angry—,"said Patch."I am ripped apart!"I shouted."