Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have. — Emily M. Danforth Stills Copy Share Image
“It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.” — Emily M. Danforth Felt Copy Share Image
“When you run into yourself, you run into feelings you never thought you had.” — Emily M. Danforth Feelings Copy Share Image
“The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.” — Emily M. Danforth Childhood Copy Share Image
You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding. — Emily M. Danforth Hiding Copy Share Image
“We were good at this game: We could make it go on for days.” — Emily M. Danforth Football Copy Share Image
How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin? — Emily M. Danforth Sin Copy Share Image
But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do. — Emily M. Danforth Dream 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.… — Emily M. Danforth Doing Copy Share Image
“...and there I was sending all the wrong signals to the right people in the wrong ways. Again, again, again.” — Emily M. Danforth Right people 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… — Emily M. Danforth Laughed Copy Share Image
In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites. — Emily M. Danforth Caught 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… — Emily M. Danforth Drinking tea 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… — Emily M. Danforth Life 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,… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“That's because we have it so good", I told her, trying on his deep voice. We impersonated him all the way home,… — Emily M. Danforth Childhood 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… — Emily M. Danforth Pretty girl Copy Share Image
“Just wait, dude," Jamie had said. "I'm serious. It's fucking hard-core." Since Jamie described everything from zombie movies to his parents' fights… — Emily M. Danforth Hard core Copy Share Image
“I was doing my little stand up shtick, the one I did for pretty girls, so they'd like me quickly and wouldn't… — Emily M. Danforth Funny Copy Share Image
“But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole… — Emily M. Danforth Beneath the surface 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… — Emily M. Danforth Lesbian Copy Share Image
I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of… — Emily M. Danforth Enormous 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.… — Emily M. Danforth Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
“If you don't know for sure, then what's the big thing about trying stuff out?" Jamie said, looking not at me but… — Emily M. Danforth Lesbian Copy Share Image
“But if renting all those movies had taught me anything more than how to lose myself in them, it was that you… — Emily M. Danforth Life Copy Share Image
“I thought about that while he made his next calls, while I kept on with the newsletters. I thought about it during… — Emily M. Danforth Belief Copy Share Image
“I told myself that I didn't need any of that shit, but there it was, repeated to me day after day after… — Emily M. Danforth Amber 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… — Emily M. Danforth Good guy Copy Share Image
“On the screen it rained and rained confetti, for minutes, and that glitter-rain, plus the cameras flashing and the lights from the… — Emily M. Danforth Life 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… — Emily M. Danforth Good guy Copy Share Image
“I hate sour cream and onion Pringles," I told the dashboard where I had my feet planted until Ruth pushed them down.… — 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… — Emily M. Danforth Felt Like Copy Share Image
“Yeah," I said, "Whatever." I didn't want to talk anymore about what had just happened; I hated that about Promise. Why couldn't… — Emily M. Danforth Said Copy Share Image
“I think it was probably the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. "I can't believe I don't have my camera," Jane said… — Emily M. Danforth Photography Copy Share Image
“School was out for the day, it was just barely starting to feel like spring, and everybody streamed through the hallways drunk… — Emily M. Danforth Every moment Copy Share Image
