“When you run into yourself, you run into feelings you never thought you had.” — Emily M. Danforth Feelings Copy Share Image
“We were good at this game: We could make it go on for days.” — Emily M. Danforth Football Copy Share Image
You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding. — Emily M. Danforth Hiding Copy Share Image
“The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.” — Emily M. Danforth Childhood Copy Share Image
“It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.” — Emily M. Danforth Felt 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
“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
“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 Jealous 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
“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 Ruth 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
“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
“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
“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 Beautiful thing 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
“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
“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 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
“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 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
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
Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have. — Emily M. Danforth Maybe 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Confused 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 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 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
“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
