Emma Cameron Quotes

Stella scribbledin thick black textaacross half the pagesof my best storybook,filled with people who venturedwhere their hearts took them.Beautiful worlds beyond mine.

I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells:body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of oppression and freedom.

Then she smiles, like it'sthe first time she's seen sunafter a decade of winters.

i miss my brother likethe sea would miss saltif that were taken away.

Growing up changes morethan playground gamesand body shapes.

I'm all alone,fuming at myself,waving a great flagof failure.

One more year and I will be closer to wherever I'm going.

It's not about blood,"says Lucius. "It's about who you shareyour life with.Where you feelyou really belong.

I want out of this place.With no reminders."It stings -sulphur tearsin cinnamon rain.

Instead,she's as stillas a leaf-littered pond,dark water evaporating,waiting desperately for rain.

I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.

The true test is wonwhen being togetherwithout saying a wordis everything.

Things should have beenso differentto the way they arenow.

There're three reasonspeople get away from here:gone good, gone bad orgone dead.

It's nice to think that picking uncertain paths may not necessarily alter their destination too drastically, simply the journey undertaken to reach it.