Emily M. Danforth Quotes

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

Emily M. Danforth

• Dream
• Way

But if renting all those movies had taught me anything more than how to lose myself in them, it was that you only actually have perfectly profound little moments like that in real life if you recognize them yourself, do all the fancy shot work and editing in your head, usually in the very seconds that whatever is happening is happening. And even if you do manage to do so, just about never does anyone else you’re with at the time experience that exact same kind of moment, and it’s impossible to explain it as it’s happening, and then the moment is over.

Emily M. Danforth

• Life
• Work
• Movies

...and there I was sending all the wrong signals to the right people in the wrong ways. Again, again, again.

Emily M. Danforth

• Signals
• Sending
• Wrong Way

In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.

Emily M. Danforth

• Marijuana
• Release
• Scent

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

Emily M. Danforth

• Help
• Girls
• Liked

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.

Emily M. Danforth

• Trees
• Shadows
• Removed

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

Emily M. Danforth

• Catch
• Hiding

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

Emily M. Danforth

• Sin
• Victim
• Pretend

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

Emily M. Danforth

• Sure