"My arm was hurting bad. Real bad."
Chapter 1, pg. 4

"Then the SWAT team had reached the roof landing. And then I was lifting the Nine, but my eyes were closed, there were tears running down my face, and I was holding the Nine against my own head."
Chapter 1, pg. 9

"Rico wasn't somebody you could rely on and he had messed me up before. But just the way Rico got dope sick, the way he turned into something that wasn't good to see, I was getting broke sick."
Chapter 2, pg. 13

"I'm sitting there watching the whole thing on television, watching my life like it was happening outside my body."
Chapter 3, pg. 17

"Sometimes when things got real bad, when I was dope sick like a mother, she would just hold me and ask me to dream with her."
Chapter 4, pg. 26

"It made me want to cry. Not the pain, but...