Camilla Way > Quotes

“When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents.”
― Camilla Way, The Dead of Summer

“I know how it feels to love every inch of someone: eyelashes, earlobes, toenails, the skin and flesh and muscles and veins and bones, every one.”
― Camilla Way, Watching Edie

“--and yet, in my heart, I always knew we loved each other, a part of me understanding that the passion with which we hurt each other came from something strong enough to withstand the blows we inflicted. Looking back, I guess I always felt that we would have time to work things out eventually, not imagining what was to come; that we would one day have to cut all ties and never speak again.”
― Camilla Way, Watching Edie

“the way they do remain a part of us, those people who have hurt us very deeply, or who we have hurt, never letting us go, not entirely.”
― Camilla Way, Watching Edie

“As my heart begins to return to normal, I look down at -- and feel such an intense rush of love and relief it takes my breath away. "I will never let you put of my sight again," I promise --”
― Camilla Way, Watching Edie

“his face,”
― Camilla Way, Watching Edie

“From my top-floor flat here on Telegraph Hill, you can see forever and as usual it calms me, soothes me: how big it is, how small I am, how far from where I used to be.”
― Camilla Way, Watching Edie

“had”
― Camilla Way, The Lies We Told

“And I see with a start of surprise that her eyes are swimming, that she feels sad for me. I want to tell her that Lydia had shoes with blue bows on them, that she liked me to sing her to sleep at night, that she couldn’t pronounce her L’s. I want to tell her that I miss my sister more than anything, that my heart hurts from it still. But the silence stretches and I find I can’t say any of these”
― Camilla Way, Watching Edie

“she has to hug herself tightly, her arms around herself as though if she were to let go of her shaking body it might fall to pieces.”
― Camilla Way, Who Killed Ruby?

“Pg 166 - A friend who often slept with her boyfriend when she didn't feel like it because she couldn't stand his endless moods if she didn't....they were ordinary men, not Monsters leaping out of bushes...A bit selfish. A bit entitled.”
― Camilla Way, The Lies We Told