Emily M. Danforth Quotes

How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?

Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have.

You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.

I just liked girls because I couldn't help not to.

I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.

But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.

It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

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.

The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.

...when I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to see more.