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“Just because he’s not useful like everyone else doesn’t mean that he has nothing left to offer,” he says, no trace of his effervescence to be found. The rise and fall of his chest, the color in his cheekbones, I know deep inside he’s not talking about Larry. How in hell do I say no to that? “Yeah. You’re right.”
Take it, I want to growl. Take whatever you want from me.
Going blind might have been the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me Harper.
“Being happy is the simplest thing there is. You just have to let yourself. You just have to tell yourself you deserve to be,”
“I don’t want to fuck you because what we do together isn’t fucking. I want to make love with you, and I don’t care how we do it or when we do it or if we ever don’t.”
“You taught me how to see. I honestly don’t know why God gave me eyes before you came along, because I didn’t use them for a damn thing until I saw you.”
“It’s okay. Tell me when it hurts too much, and I’ll make it better. Please just don’t ever run away again.”
It’s dark, but I’m no longer in the dark. I have my light back, and he’s going to be okay.
I wanted to return to him whole, even though I knew he would have taken me in pieces.
I realized allowing yourself to be loved is more difficult than people think.
