Rush Quotes

“Love, real love, wasn’t empty, grasping hands, or lies that felt like truths. And it wasn’t perfect or neat or always easy. It was a rising sun on a new day. It was endless possibility.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“Maybe what I told her was a lie. Maybe I could be what she deserved. Maybe I could make the same teeth-clenching, sweat-pouring effort I’d put into my PT, and channel that into living blind, so that she wouldn’t have to constantly be cleaning up after me, or dragging my ass out of the house. 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.
Maybe. Maybe is gradations of darkness. The sweetest torture.
Maybe is hope.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“Maybe. Maybe is gradations of darkness. The sweetest torture. Maybe is hope.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“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.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.—John Milton”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“What does he need?”
He smiled sadly. “Someone who stays.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“You’re the light in my darkness, Charlotte.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“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.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“How do you do that? How do you know what to do and say so that I feel…?”
“So that you feel what?”
“Whole. You make me feel like I have a shot at something more than this misery.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“Here’s a helpful hint: If you nod, I can’t see it. Or head shakes. Or shrugs. Or middle fingers. Or interpretive dances. When I ask you a question, you need to actually speak.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“Until you, I was lost. Sometimes, you’re the only thing that ever feels real to me.”
I stroked his cheek. “I’ll always be right here for you, Noah.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“Make it sing, Charlotte, and maybe think of me when you do.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“dusky face.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“Because only when you’re about to lose it all, do you realize how much you have.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“Our hearts were thundering together, then slowing together, and it felt as if her warm, soft body were melting into mine. We lay this way a long time, neither of us saying a word, until she finally lifted her head and kissed me one last time, breathing life into me when nothing and no one else had before”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“I love you, Noah. With my heart and my soul and this body. With every part of me. I love you so much you don’t have to see it. You can feel it”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“I don’t know how to talk to people anymore.” Her voice sounded muffled, as if she were wiping her nose. “Yeah, I noticed. You’re like a walking Internet comment, just spewing whatever pops off the top of your head. You can’t do that with people in real life.”
― Emma Scott, Rush

“Love, real love, wasn’t empty, grasping hands or lies that felt like truths. And it wasn’t perfect or neat or always easy. It was a rising sun on a new day. It was endless possibility.”
― Emma Scott, Rush