Cate Cameron > Quotes

“He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damned sense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damned
sense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“Karen had no problem standing up to people. She’d say ‘no’ before the question was even asked.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“It was weird to be with her in a group. I kept wanting to stop the conversation to make sure everybody had noticed
what a cool thing she’d just said or done. It wasn’t because I was insecure or worried that they wouldn’t like her. I just wanted to have someone to share it all with, like that burst of excitement you get when you meet someone who likes the same obscure band or has the same favorite movie. I
guess I was a Karen fan, and I wanted to start a fan club.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“My imagination couldn’t change reality. I couldn’t go to the past. I was stuck in the present and I wasn’t sure how the hell I was going to get through the future.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“Let’s face it, if you don’t like curling or snowmobiling, there isn’t a lot else to do in a small town in the dead of an Ontario winter. But in June? Hockey should have been done months ago.”
― Cate Cameron, Breakaway

“They could justify me having a bedroom in the basement: it had been their spare bedroom for years, there was lots of natural light and it didn’t make sense to move any of the kids out of their bedrooms just to move me in.

Minimal distruption, that was the goal. Keep everything normal just the way it always has been. Let’s all just try to ignore the fact that there’s a whole new person suddenly living in the house.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“Why the hell should I care what a bunch of shallow strangers thought about me? I sure shouldn’t care what they thought about my so-called father. Maybe he was a much as a slut as they said he was, but they wasn’t my problem. It wasn’t like I’d ever thought he was a good guy.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“The beach was deserted on the first Firday night of real summer when it should’ve been full of bonfires and partying because everyone was at the arena cheering for a guy who’d only live in Corrigan Falls for three years. He was a good guy, sure, but why the hell was that so special? Because of hockey. Because somehow, for some reason, this town, this province, this country had decided that hockey mattered more than anything else.”
― Cate Cameron, Breakaway

“But for the first time in months when my mind wandered that morning, it didn’t take me back to hockey, didn’t torture me with visions of goals I’d never score and trophies I’d never win.”
― Cate Cameron, Breakaway

“Yeah, if I could just do as I was told, turn myself into a hockey machine, focus on the game, not let myself get distracted by that girl in the park, the way her hair moved as she ran, the way she’d been a bit of a smart ass about the allergies thing, the way… then the coaches were yelling again and we got back to work.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“I hate myself at times like these. It’s not weak to take a little help and it doesn’t mean I’m pathetic and needy if I let someone do something for me, but sometimes, it’s like I’m psychologically unable to accept assistance.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“If I wanted to know what Tyler had to say about anything, I’d just give him a call and ask him, but I damn well wouldn’t be asking him about hockey. I was done with hockey and absolutely done with hockey players.”
― Cate Cameron, Breakaway

“My mother was dead, I was living in small-town hell with a father I’d never even met until the day before the funeral and his whole family hated me. A therapist wasn’t going to help with any of that. Nothing was going to help with any of that.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“It was weird to be feeling like I was over-the-hill when I wasn’t even 18 yet, but if I started thinking about all the young guys coming up behind me, it tended to freak me out.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“For the record, my name is Karen, not Karenina, and my mom was the one who named me, so you’d think she of all people would have respected her own choice, but apparently not.”
― Cate Cameron, Center Ice

“Yeah, it was stupid. I was building up a girl I hardly knew at all into some perfect fantasy creature. Not realistic and probably not fair, but at least I wasn’t thinking about hockey.”
― Cate Cameron, Breakaway

“It was summertime by any reckoning I could think of, but everyone in Corrigan Falls was still completely obsessed with hockey, especially this year.”
― Cate Cameron, Breakaway

“I was on my own, alone with my thoughts, doing everything I could to keep my attention where it belonged. I wished I could run instead of walk just for the cardio and the distraction, but my physiotherapist had been pretty damn clear about taking things slow. She would have kicked my ass if she’d thought of me running along the rough path with all its twisted roots and other tripping hazards.”
― Cate Cameron, Breakaway

“I had my acceptance to McGill University already sorted out and ready, so it was just two months of working my tail off to save as much money as possible and then I’d be gone, off to Montreal to start my new life, free of hockey.”
― Cate Cameron, Breakaway