Quotes from Kate Camp

The house was light and moved when we did. With my arm above my head as I lay I might have been a ballerina bent over in a music box.

Outside insects or maybe frogs were making the noise of phone calls. Vertical blinds drifted like bars being moved for a great escape. When you slapped a mosquito against the wall you shook the place.

Do you sometimes feel you might be painted onto the world, find yourself standing like an angel in a Dutch interior, with nothing to do?

And if I say that when I see myself in the window of the bus I resemble an elephant I don't mean that unlovingly. Just that I look surprisingly human with my long face and my memories.

He's shocked to find I am middle aged. I'm not shocked. Inside me are the Russian dolls of the women and girls I've been before each more beautiful and unhappy than the current.