The Lamb Quotes

“I wondered if we were born with something broken inside us. Maybe it was in the deepest marrow of our bones, some place we couldn't see or touch. Maybe that's why we couldn't love each other the way we were supposed to.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“Nature was beautiful. But we did such a good job of making it ugly.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“Men are forever thought of as boys. But girls? Once we’re mamas or once we’re ripe, we can never be girls again. Not in their eyes. But we are always girls and daughters, underneath. Always.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“I wondered if this was what being a real human was: accepting you were pieces of other people too. The people you loved and the people you hurt.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“You were supposed to be a promise of happiness, but you've eaten me alive.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“She carried something terrible with her. She kept her grief subdued and quiet – so much so, it had begun to rot.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“He loved the idea of me before he peeled back all the layers.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“The devil looks as ordinary as you and me.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“I’ve never understood why mamas are expected to be perfect,’ she said. ‘Men are forever thought of as boys. But girls? Once we’re mamas or once we’re ripe, we can never be girls again. Not in their eyes. But we are always girls and daughters, underneath. Always.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“We all need different sorts of love to make us feel whole.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“On my fourth birthday, I plucked six severed fingers from the shower drain.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“Years feel longer when you aren’t loved the way you want to be. Or the way you’re supposed to be.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“What people don’t know, Little One, is that the most dreadful things happen out in the open while the sun shines bright up in the sky and no one can do a thing about it. Those who watch don’t care and pretend they don’t see. They burrow and forget.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“I feel as though we've known each other longer than our hearts have beaten.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“Mama didn’t feed me from breast or bottle. She gave me blood.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“It’s impossible to truly know someone who hides so much of themselves and consumes so much of others.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“Men love the idea of women. They love the question about a woman. The mystery yet to be solved. Then, when he discovers she has a personality all of her own, neuroses and quirks, just like him, he decides”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“On my fourth birthday”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“And Mama was in love. Desperately in love. But she wasn’t in love with me. And I don’t think I was in love with her either.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“We can be different for a while but we'll never change what is true in our bones and brains.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“Our love was rotten, but still looking for the burning it craved; for anything to revive the embers that had gone out long ago.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“But the hole in her chest was never filled. And, with every passing day, it grew.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“Men are stupid when they feel powerful, Little one. They become complacent.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“I wondered why we couldn’t fit together like other mamas and their kits. I wondered if we were born with something broken inside us. Maybe it was in the deepest marrow of our bones, some place we couldn’t see or touch. Maybe that’s why we couldn’t love each other the way we were supposed to.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“I watched Mama and Eden, wondering if Abbie and I would hold each other like that one day, middle-aged and hungry and drinking wine like grown-ups.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“I thought of Papa. He wouldn’t have liked Eden. He liked quiet and unambitious women. Women you could look at but not hear. I knew that because Mama had been quiet around him. Only giving small pieces of herself if he was in a good mood, she hadn’t shared herself with him wholly.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“Promise me she was happy,’ I said. ‘We can’t eat them unless they’re happy.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“That’s when I realised that”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“wondered if this was what being a real human was: accepting you were pieces of other people too. The people you loved and the people you hurt.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“world.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb