Quotes About Camila

Everyone tries to decipher what I write as if there's a hidden message and I'm like, 'There's no hidden message.' I don't even put that much energy into things. I wish I did.

It seemed to Dinah that Camila wanted to strip humanity of its heroes. She'd couched what she'd said in terms of aggression. But by doing so, Camila was just being aggressive in a different way—a passive-aggressive way that Dinah, raised as she'd been raised, couldn't help seeing as sneaky. More destructive, in the end, than the overt kind of aggression.

Camila had intended to be perfunctory and if possible impudent, but now she was struck for the first time with the dignity of the old woman. The mercer's daughter could carry herself at times with all the distinction of the Montemayors and when she was drunk she wore the grandeur of Hecuba.

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