21 Quotes by Camilla Gibb

The reality of this wide-eyed caramel-coloured wonder was arresting. This was the future, alive and kicking in my arms.

I've tried to read, but I can't make it through more than a paragraph at a time. The floor is littered with abandoned newspapers and yogurt pots.

If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It’s like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.

You would fancy any man who gave you baklava," I tease. "You think I am some kind of sharmuta for sweets?

The velvet darkness of his face

Girls are not passive by nature. They are only so because the culture demands they be.

She kisses the children goodnight, leaving lipstick on their foreheads and a trail of Chanel No.5.

The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.