The Brightness Between Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #2)

by Eliot Schrefer

What was it that Dad once said? Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Okay. But how can I be close to my family if they don’t want me to be who I truly am? Since I don’t want to witness their disappointment all day every day, my darkness must be a secret. And that makes me feel ashamed. It’s the dearest friend of loneliness, shame.

If I’m about to die, I’m going to hold those hands of his at least once.

Gross ugly tears

I will live in these current moments as fully as possible. Then I will be gone. Ambrose will be gone. Sheep will be gone. It arrives. The brightness between us.

MOE GROSS UGLY TEARS