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5 pages, Audiobook
First published October 13, 2015

“Aren’t you always telling me that the best thing is rarely easiest?”
“I have been known to use that phrase from time to time.”
“Well, this isn’t easy. It’s the hardest fucking thing I’ve ever done, so it has to be right.”
You want to learn how to live blind? Then fucking learn, snowflake. This is no other way.
Except that wasn’t what I wanted. I didn’t want to learn to function blind. I didn’t want to be blind at all.
“I don’t want to be blind,” I said aloud.

Words that had never, in my past life, been used to describe me hung over me every day. Helpless. Slow. Hesitant. Lost.






“It was my trial by fire. I don’t need to tell you how badly it burned. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that you know you’re worth it. I’d do it again a hundred times over if I had to. For you.”

We’d both been smashed up by life and rearranged until neither of us knew ourselves. But somehow we’d found each other, helped each other put our broken pieces back together to make something new and whole.

In my dark world, there was softness, heat, broken cries and gasps, and her skin, her hands, her mouth, and the sweet tightness of her body, and the pleasure and love that bound us together, all of it rising to a crescendo and then melting into something gentle and deep.

“You showed me I could walk the earth alone, in the dark, but I don’t want to. I want you by my side, now and forever.”
