Camilla Gibb Quotes

• Esa idea me resulta extraña. ¿La gente sigue amando? ¿La gente sigue amando aunque no estés en su cara todos los días para recordárselo? ¿La gente sigue amando aunque ya no te vea? ¿La gente sigue amando aunque esté amando a otra persona? Imposible: creer que puedes ser amado en ausencia cuando ni siquiera sabes lo que se siente al ser amado cuando estás ahí.

  Camilla Gibb

  Creer, Ideas, Gente

  Camilla Gibb (2010). “Mouthing The Words”, p.235, Random House

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• Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.

  Camilla Gibb

  Two, Roots, Differences

  Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.84, Penguin

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• It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present. Remembering only encourages the growth of phantom limbs. And it is not simply what one remembers, or why, but what to do with what one remembers, which of the scattered pieces to carry forward, what to protect and preserve, what to leave behind.

  Camilla Gibb

  Past, Growth, Pieces

  Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.107, Penguin

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

  Camilla Gibb

  Miracle, Perception, Facts

  Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.18, Penguin

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• 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

  Life, Blessing, Who I Am

  Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.248, Penguin

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