Name: Camilla
ISBN: 9780440911715

Madeleine L'Engle

Camilla Dickinson, at fifteen, learns to understand her parents and friends with th help of Luisa Rowan and Luisa's brother, Frank, with whom Camilla falls in love.

Camilla

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"I have never liked dolls. Somehow they have always frightened me a little because they are like cartoons of all that is cold and unloving and uncaring in people."

“What are you doing all alone in the dark?”
“Just looking at the rain.”
“That’s a melancholy business,”

"A nice thing about Luisa and me—we both like sandwiches for breakfast and we like cereal before we go to bed at night."

“But you’re not a child any longer,” Jacques told me.
I said, in an ice-cold voice, as cold as an outer planet, “I am a child. I do not intend to grow up.”
“But there are compensations,” Jacques said, “I promise you there are compensations.”

Also Frank was a creep.

Camilla

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