43 Quotes by Emily M. Danforth

I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from me and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all." "That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it.

I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all." "That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it.

She was not unhappy. But she was alone. Her parents had once seen so much of the world, they had lived in it. But when they'd taught her about what they'd seen and done, it had not made their child want to seek it out for herself. She was content in this cottage on her own land by the water.

Then, one on either side, they walked me to the shore, which was black and endless. 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.

I was much better at excepting everything than accepting anything, at least anything for certain, for definite. That much I knew. That much I believed.

She was a person like this: full of opinion and firm standing, she planted her flag in more topics than you could quite believe she could actually care about.

Let's rock this shit.

Too much had happened that night, too much had happened before that night, and so too much climbed into bed with them, sat heavily upon them, and kept them up and thinking, even if they did not say the things they were thinking to each other.

That makes me really sad." "I am sad," Merritt said. "I'm a sad person who does sad things. And I am deadly, deadly tired of my unhappiness.