Emory's Gift Quotes

“We would drive to Canada, where it would probably be legal for us to get married- it was Canada where they let people do whatever they wanted because it was too cold to bother stopping them.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, Emory's Gift

“I was learning an important lesson about women—if you start getting the cocky impression you’re doing really well with them, they’ll put you in your place pretty quickly.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, Emory's Gift

“Later I was to wonder at this instinctive assumption of Kay's, her unsupported but ultimately prescient conclusion that my dad and I and Emory were in need of some sort of assistance. We certainly hadn't sent out an appeal. But at the time I was more struck by the sort of person Kay was - someone so motivated to help other people she would lay her head on a young boy's shoulder to erase his humiliation in front of his friends. That she was on my front porch to 'help' now was entirely in keeping with her character.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, Emory's Gift

“Saturday the weather couldn't decide if it was ready to fully entertain winter or if we were still stuck in the fall."
"...winter showed up in an angry, punishing fury...”
― W. Bruce Cameron, Emory's Gift

“This whole kissing process was turning out to be far more complicated and stressful than I'd thought it would be.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, Emory's Gift