This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them, and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.

A Million Little Pieces (ed. Hachette UK, 2009) - ISBN: 9781848542358