she thinks about lying in here with alex, of the tangle of…

“maybe one of the reasons i don't express myself as well as i want to is because inside, shoved way down into an unseen…

— Emily Franklin

“she thought about being held to the woman's chest, and lying there hair-smoothed and quiet until she felt she'd found home. ”

— Emily Franklin

“jenna preferred to think of alice that way - like an art project, colors swirling inside her, rather than of how sick she was. ”

— Emily Franklin

“There are umbrellas for rain. Parkas for blizzards. Storm cellars for tornadoes. But there's no protection for this.”

— Emily Franklin

“at keltner's deli, everything was somehow neutralized. they were girls. they were girls with odd names who smoked after school together and maybe sometimes…

— Emily Franklin

“jenna had felt sexy-funny, like lucille ball with flour streaks on her face, a crumb-covered apron that didn't exactly flatter her, and yet nick…

— Emily Franklin

“That's what being Jewish is: summoning the means to question who you are and how you have behaved. Have you remained alight in the…

— Emily Franklin

“it's funny how you can't exactly pick your crush. well, you can, but once it get hold of you, it's hard to shake off. ”

— Emily Franklin

“it occured to her that kissing and being kissed were two different things. and being kissed by someone you've really wanted to is something…

— Emily Franklin

“i mean, heather said, our bodies are just these things that we float around in. it's not like they belong to anyone”

— Emily Franklin

“The task of any good cook, of any parent, is to be present- in the kitchen and out. To taste all the items, absorb…

— Emily Franklin

“or maybe love is summed up in moments - that day in the park, the time you had chinese food by candlelight, when the…

— Emily Franklin

“she uncurls danny's small fists and clasps his hand to hers and notices the way even in his sleep his fingers seem to know…

— Emily Franklin

“That's what the best par of life is, those days or minutes you can't ever frame or paint beforehand”

— Emily Franklin

“he can see alice in wet leaves, first as kids, when they'd jump in them, then as teenagers, when she would lie on the…

— Emily Franklin