" The look on Matthew Leroux’s face when I left was terrible to behold. Having lost my own wife, Maeve, to cancer, I actually knew how it felt to helplessly watch a person you deeply love hover between life and death. How the inconsolable pain of it buries you to the point where the thought of your own death is actually a hope and a comfort. "

― James Patterson , Bullseye (Michael Bennett, #9)