Emma Cameron Quotes

#1. I miss my brother like
the sea would miss salt
if that were taken away.

Emma Cameron

#2. I want out of this place.
With no reminders.
It stings -
sulphur tears
in cinnamon rain.

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#3. Bongo's sobs are hurled out
like paintballs from a skirmish gun
until the force diminishes
into a trickle of sobs
that wind up the exorcism.

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#4. If I let him touch me,
it'd be like opening
a one-way
telepathic tunnel.

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#5. There're three reasons
people get away from here:
gone good, gone bad or
gone dead.

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#6. Things should have been
so different
to the way they are
now.

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

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#8. I'm all alone,
fuming at myself,
waving a great flag
of failure.

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#9. The true test is won
when being together
without saying a word
is everything.

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#10. They scribble on notepads,
the sound of their pens
scratching the judgemental air.

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#11. She's never sure,
never knows,
never goes.

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#12. The telly is invaded
by hallelujah channels
and informercials,
both trying to sell
everything needed
to save you.

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#13. It's not about blood,"
says Lucius. "It's
about who you share
your life with.
Where you feel
you really belong.

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

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#15. Then she smiles, like it's
the first time she's seen sun
after a decade of winters.

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#16. Stella scribbled
in thick black texta
across half the pages
of my best storybook,
filled with people who ventured
where their hearts took them.
Beautiful worlds beyond mine.

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#17. Strange, isn't it?" he asks.
"Where life takes you and
how much can change.

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#18. 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.

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

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#20. I'm just
the reason they married.
Mum says
I was a surprise.
Dad says
I was an accident.
Truth is ...
I am their mistake.

Emma Cameron