Emma Cameron Quotes & Sayings

There're three reasons
people get away from here:
gone good, gone bad or
gone dead. — Emma Cameron

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

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. — Emma Cameron

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

I'm all alone,
fuming at myself,
waving a great flag
of failure. — Emma Cameron

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

She's never sure,
never knows,
never goes. — Emma Cameron

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

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. — Emma Cameron

Things should have been
so different
to the way they are
now. — Emma Cameron

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

The true test is won
when being together
without saying a word
is everything. — Emma Cameron

I want out of this place.
With no reminders.
It stings -
sulphur tears
in cinnamon rain. — Emma Cameron

I miss my brother like
the sea would miss salt
if that were taken away. — Emma Cameron

One more year and I will be closer to wherever I'm going. — Emma Cameron

They scribble on notepads,
the sound of their pens
scratching the judgemental air. — Emma Cameron

Then she smiles, like it's
the first time she's seen sun
after a decade of winters. — Emma Cameron

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. — Emma Cameron

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

The telly is invaded
by hallelujah channels
and informercials,
both trying to sell
everything needed
to save you. — Emma Cameron