“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… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Friendship 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… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Children 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… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Dead end 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… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Dreaming 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… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Childhood 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… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt City 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… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Love 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… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Happy times Copy Share Image
“And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.” — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Stories Copy Share Image
“The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.” — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Learning 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… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Love Copy Share Image
“Then suddenly it's a hot day and we're at my apartment and my dress is off and nobody is saying but. He's… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“Angel asks me about Josh and I tell her that he likes it when I fall asleep with my head on his… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Love Copy Share Image
“I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Daughter Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family.” — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Family Copy Share Image
