Camilla Gibb Quotes

#1. But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.

Camilla Gibb

#2. Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.

Camilla Gibb

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

Camilla Gibb

#4. 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.

Camilla Gibb

#5. I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur'an, something troubled in me became still.

Camilla Gibb

#6. He wrote the future onto my face with his lips.

Camilla Gibb

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

Camilla Gibb

#8. It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.

Camilla Gibb