“If someone eliminates the obstacles you believe to be in front of you, then you have no choice but to try. Fail… — Camilla Gibb Adversity Copy Share Image
“I marvelled at her capabilities as a mother - naturally empathic but no pushover, funny and generous, frank about her own limitations… — Camilla Gibb Mother Copy Share Image
“In tourism college they were taught that American notions of what constitutes a personal question are quite different from their own. Tư… — Camilla Gibb Death penalty Copy Share Image
It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body… — Camilla Gibb Amputation Copy Share Image
“Clench clench these strong teeth in this strong mouth. My mouth. Of my body. In my house. My mouth? Chapped lips swollen… — Camilla Gibb Dreams Copy Share Image
But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts. — Camilla Gibb Determine Copy Share Image
It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we… — Camilla Gibb Absence Copy Share Image
“If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I… — Camilla Gibb Awaken Copy Share Image
“We come to know ourselves only through stories. We listen to the stories of others, we inherit the stories of those who… — Camilla Gibb Narrative Copy Share Image
“HOw do you protect a child from heartbreak? All I know is the egg wants to be held all the time, and… — Camilla Gibb Children Copy Share Image
“I suspect we can all be domesticated by love, but when love is threatened or broken, our suspicions and mistrust are confirmed.… — Camilla Gibb Love Copy Share Image
That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their… — Camilla Gibb Absence Copy Share Image
“I never expected to be happy, to have a sense of belonging somewhere. I didn't grow up with a sense that this… — Camilla Gibb Parenting Copy Share Image
“The history of Vietnam lies in this bowl, for it is in Hanoi, the Vietnamese heart, that phở was born, a combination… — Camilla Gibb History Copy Share Image
“She asked me if Christmas was a particularly tense time and whether my father had ever hit my mother while trimming the… — Camilla Gibb Mother Copy Share Image
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the… — Camilla Gibb Belief Copy Share Image
“In order to know someone who is at some level unknowable, you must leave yourself wide open. If you don't, you foreclose… — Camilla Gibb Protect yourself Copy Share Image
