Mother Quote by Camilla Gibb

“Clench clench these strong teeth in this strong mouth. My mouth. Of my body. In my house. My mouth? Chapped lips swollen and bloody?…

— Camilla Gibb

It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are,…

— Camilla Gibb

“In tourism college they were taught that American notions of what constitutes a personal question are quite different from their own. Tư has learned…

— Camilla Gibb

“If someone eliminates the obstacles you believe to be in front of you, then you have no choice but to try. Fail spectacularly, if…

— Camilla Gibb

It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the…

— Camilla Gibb

“She asked me if Christmas was a particularly tense time and whether my father had ever hit my mother while trimming the tree. I…

— Camilla Gibb

“I suspect we can all be domesticated by love, but when love is threatened or broken, our suspicions and mistrust are confirmed. Experience has…

— Camilla Gibb

That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday…

— Camilla Gibb

“I never expected to be happy, to have a sense of belonging somewhere. I didn't grow up with a sense that this was possible…

— Camilla Gibb

“We come to know ourselves only through stories. We listen to the stories of others, we inherit the stories of those who came before,…

— Camilla Gibb

“The history of Vietnam lies in this bowl, for it is in Hanoi, the Vietnamese heart, that phở was born, a combination of the…

— Camilla Gibb

“HOw do you protect a child from heartbreak? All I know is the egg wants to be held all the time, and perhaps if…

— Camilla Gibb