FAMILY SECRET: CLAIMING MY FATHER'S TOY
"People can sleep here if they need to. The owner believes books should be accessible to everyone."
I wandered through the aisles slowly, pulling random books off shelves, reading first lines, getting lost in the chaos of it all. Vincent followed at a distance, letting me explore.
In a section marked "Poetry," I found a slim volume with a worn cover. I opened it randomly and read: "We are all broken. That's how the light gets in."
Something about those words hit me harder than they should have.
"Find something?" Vincent appeared beside me.
I showed him the page. He read it and smiled slightly. "Leonard Cohen. He understood brokenness better than most."