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Peter Cameron

"And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that."

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.89, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Peter Cameron

#Girl Quotes #Moving Quotes #Boys Quotes

“When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.”
“Give people plenty of opportunity to enjoy themselves by emphasizing ways that let people participate in the experience...”
“My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.”
“You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.”
“Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register.”
“What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know...I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people.”

Source : "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You".
“I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.”

Source : "Robin Quivers returns to 'Howard Stern Show'". www.today.com. June 06, 2012.
“When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.”

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