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I send up the apology to my former self, the one who didn’t know the path of love was far less glamorous than the world leads us to believe. Maybe in another life, he won’t take the one I did.
If you can’t tell your friends about your life, it’s not a life you should be living.
wish people came with warning labels,” he offers when I trail off. “Or like a character trait menu on a video game.”
Nobody’s more deserving of having one of his romance novel happy endings than him.
With Harper, it’s like I’m addicted to trying to win a prize—his happiness.
His hand was meant to be in mine. It makes sense there. I don’t want it to ever stop making sense.
He’s…touching his lips, the lips that just kissed me, the lips that I just kissed. He’s touching our kiss, and he’s…smiling.
Going blind might have been the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me Harper.
point. I believed terrible lies from Dallas, but I rejected the ones I thought were good lies from Riley.
Because I do. I finally got to see what real love between a couple feels like, is supposed to look like, and I’m so lucky that I got to learn that lesson from him out of all the people in the world.
“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.”
“Riley?” He lets out with a defeated sound, resting his head on my shoulder. “I’ve got nothing to give you though.”
“How can you say that?” I whisper, wrapping my arms around him, grateful to have him close again. “You have the only thing I want. You. Just you. Your kind heart, your jokes, your laughter, your smiles, your beautiful fucking intelligence. Your patience.”
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.
