Emily Franklin Quotes

That's what being Jewish is: summoning the means to question who you are and how you have behaved. Have you remained alight in the darkness of cruel wishes,..? Have you forgiven? Have you lived up to the standards of your one and only heart?

at keltner's deli, everything was somehow neutralized. they were girls. they were girls with odd names who smoked after school together and maybe sometimes alone.

it's funny how you can't exactly pick your crush. well, you can, but once it get hold of you, it's hard to shake off.

she thinks about lying in here with alex, of the tangle of arms and rope, or lips.

she uncurls danny's small fists and clasps his hand to hers and notices the way even in his sleep his fingers seem to know their way around hers; their hands together form their own organ, or an x, like on a map that insists you are here.

she thought about being held to the woman's chest, and lying there hair-smoothed and quiet until she felt she'd found home.

it occured to her that kissing and being kissed were two different things. and being kissed by someone you've really wanted to is something else again.

The task of any good cook, of any parent, is to be present- in the kitchen and out. To taste all the items, absorb each child's day, all those moments, and form them into the day's meals.

maybe one of the reasons i don't express myself as well as i want to is because inside, shoved way down into an unseen pit, i'm not sure of what i want.

jenna had felt sexy-funny, like lucille ball with flour streaks on her face, a crumb-covered apron that didn't exactly flatter her, and yet nick had kissed her like a prom king falling for the reinvented girl in a movie.

That's what the best par of life is, those days or minutes you can't ever frame or paint beforehand