“In the happy times, in the tell-me-again times, when I’m seven and there are no stepbrothers and it’s before the stepfathers, my mom lets me sleep in her bed. Her bed is a raft on the ocean. It’s a cloud,… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.” — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“Sam's house is everything I wanted, but didn't know to want...I want to wrap myself in this house like a blanket.” — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“And then he hugs me. Really hugs me. Like he thinks that there's only one of me and I'm special and I'm enough for… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“Alone is how our story starts. But then I came along and changed all that.” — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“You don’t look like anyone special at all,” I tell him. And I curse him. And I start a club to hate him. And… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scratching of a branch… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“If you give boys what they want, they give you what you need. Right?” — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“I'm far from the world and I see it like a brightly lit ball in the distance. The sky behind it is mostly gray.… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“In the tell-me-again times, (…) when my mom and I lived in a little apartment in a little building downtown, I slept in her… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“I belong here, I tell Toy. I'm hungry for every city block. Every brick building. Every crowded intersection. Electric. I feel brand new.” — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“I want Toy to know that I know. That no matter how many boys tell her they love her, how many boys tell her… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“In the happy times, in the tell-me-again times, when I’m seven and there are no stepbrothers and it’s before the stepfathers, my mom lets… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.” — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“She's never been touched by a boy who knows what love looks like.I picture Sam's parents, his mom resting her hand in the center… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
