Rush (Rush, #1)

by Emma Scott

“There are times in this life in which we must do what is best, and so often what is best is not what is easy.”

“Whole. You make me feel like I have a shot at something more than this misery.”

My endless black was never going to go away. That was certainty. But kissing Charlotte had been a burst of light streaking across it, like a comet.

“Not yet, but I’m trying. I’m so sorry I hurt you tonight. Or ever. You’re the light in my darkness, Charlotte. You are…”

“Until you, I was lost. Sometimes, you’re the only thing that ever feels real to me.”

She made no distinction between scarred flesh and whole. It was just me that she wanted, as I was, and who is ever lucky enough to feel that in this world?

“A last wish I’m afraid won’t ever fade. I’ve made peace with my blindness but if I could see just once more—just one thing in this world—it would be you. I would only need a second. One second, and I would hold the image of you in my heart forever.”

Crying

I am blind but I’m no longer lost in the dark. The future with Charlotte is vast and bright, and over that horizon—our horizon—I can see to forever.