Top 29 Emily M. Danforth Quotes
#1. And there I was sending all the wrong signals to the right people in the wrong ways. Again, again, again.
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#2. I felt like I needed something official to show me how all of this should feel, how I should be acting, what I should be saying
even if it was just some dumb movie that wasn't really official at all.
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#3. 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.
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#4. How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?
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#5. Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have.
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#6. 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 to the new enchilada platter at Taco John's as "fucking hard-core," none of us could gauge much by it.
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#7. A relationship with a higher power is often best practiced alone.
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#8. There were angry clouds building up behind the moutains, black-gray clouds, great clumps of them colored just like cotton balls after Aunt Ruth cleaned off her eye makeup from a big night out, all gunky with mascara and eye shadow. (p 378)
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#9. That's because we have it so good, I told her, trying on his deep voice. We impersonated him all the way home, laughing and blowing bubbles, both of us knowing that he was right. We did have it so good.
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#10. Now I sometimes wonder how things might have turned out differently if I'd not made that decision, but you don't really get anywhere when you think too much about stuff like that.
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#11. But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.
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#12. It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.
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#13. Yeah," I said, "Whatever." I didn't want to talk anymore about what had just happened; I hated that about Promise. Why couldn't a moment just happen, and both of us be aware of it, without having to comment on it forever and ever?
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#14. You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.
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#15. I've got the weed, Jane said, and we all laughed the way you laugh when you're trying to be brave in the face of something that scares you.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Adam kept sneering, near a shout now. Yeah, well what about saving him from right now? What about the hell of thinking it's best just to fucking chop your balls off than to have your body somehow betray your stupid fucking belief system?
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#18. In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.
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#19. You don't know anything about God. You don't even know anything about the movies.
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#20. The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.
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#21. 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 again, her voice almost reverent.
"You couldn't ever get this into a picture," I said. "And you'd miss it while you were trying to.
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#22. 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.
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#24. What is it that I'm doing again?"
"You know that already," she said. "You just think that you don't, but you do. It's what you came all this way for.
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#26. When you run into yourself, you run into feelings you never thought you had.
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#27. But Ruth was wrong, too. There was more than just one other world beyond ours; there were hundreds and hundreds of them, and at 99 cents apiece I could rent them all.
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#28. 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.
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