Victoria Lamb > Victoria's Quotes

“I don't care much for diamonds,' Nicola had told him.

'Have you ever been offered any?' he had asked, and he had been making fun of her, his face mocking.

'Not that I can remember,' Nicola had admitted calmly.

'And how would an offer be received?' he had asked, as though he knew the answer.

'With a kick in the teeth,' Nicola had said, meeting his eye.”
― Charlotte Lamb, Obsession

“A little politeness might smooth the way ahead. Knowing it was his turn to be dispatched, the best he could hope for was as swift a death as the one Massetti had so thanklessly received.”
― Victoria Lamb

“I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging.”
― Victoria Lamb

“When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since early childhood, a heat in the blood that leaves me flushed and unsteady, dreaming in daylight.”
― Victoria Lamb

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“People are like that sometimes. They don't want to think about the consequences. And why should they? They're having fun. Sometimes they don't even realise somebody's in trouble until it's too late.”
― Beth Reekles, Rolling Dice

“Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.”
― Catullus, The Complete Poems

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch