Emily M. Danforth Quotes

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

~ Emily M. Danforth

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.

~ Emily M. Danforth

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

~ Emily M. Danforth

But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole world beyond that shoreline, beyond the forest, beyond the knuckle mountains, beyond, beyond, beyond, not beneath the surface at all, but beyond and waiting.

~ Emily M. Danforth

I was doing my little stand up shtick, the one I did for pretty girls, so they'd like me quickly and wouldn't try too hard to actually get to know me beyond my role as wisecracking Cameron, the orphan. Maybe it was a little like flirting, but also a kind of protection: Don't get too close; I'm just jokes with substance.

~ Emily M. Danforth

...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.

~ Emily M. Danforth

If you don't know for sure, then what's the big thing about trying stuff out? Jamie said, looking not at me but looking out at that statue, just like Hennitz.I still didn't have any of the right words. It's more like maybe I do know and I'm still confused too, at the same time. Does that make sense? I mean, it's like how you noticed this thing about me tonight, you saw it, or you already knew it - it's there. But that doesn't mean it's not confusing or whatever.

~ Emily M. Danforth