“But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole world beyond that shoreline, beyond the forest, beyond the knuckle mountains, beyond, beyond, beyond, not beneath the surface… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“Then, one on either side, they walked me to the shore, which was black and endless. But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole world beyond… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“Now there was photographic evidence of me with a girl. Lindsey pack the camera in her duffel while I contemplated the film inside it,… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“I've got the weed," Jane said, and we all laughed the way you laugh when you're trying to be brave in the face of… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.” — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“What is it that I’m doing again?” “You know that already,” she said. “You just think that you don’t, but you do. It’s what… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“But Ruth was wrong, too. There was more than just one other world beyond ours; there were hundreds and hundreds of them, and at… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites. — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“Everything was heightened the way it always is when summer is slipping away to fall, and you're younger than eighteen, and all you can… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding. — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“...when I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“I felt like I needed something official to show me how all of this should feel, how I should be acting, what I should… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“I lifted the remote control, pushed the Play button, and started the video. I guess, in that moment, I also started my new life… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life.” — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
