“I lifted the remote control, pushed the Play button, and started the video. I guess, in that moment, I also started my new life as Cameron-the-girl-with-no-parents. Ruth was sort of right, I would learn: A relationship with a higher power… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“I don’t think it’s overstating it to say that my religion of choice became VHS rentals, and that its messages came in Technicolor and musical montages and fades and jump cuts and silver-screen legends and B-movie nobodies and villains to… — 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
