Lamb in Love Quotes

“How horribly easy it is, he thinks now, breathing hard, watching the light retreat down the lane, to go from good to bad, from the dream to the memory, from what we want to all we've ever had.”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love

“But now it is Norris's privilege and pleasure to see her as no one else does, for he has been struck by love for Vida. And in his eyes, under the transforming inspection of his gaze―well, who can tell? Vida may become something more than she appears at the very moment, waiting quietly on her bench, the world breathing delicately around her.”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love

“He is also, not surprisingly, a philatelist, a collector and admirer of stamps.”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love: A Novel

“You could see that it only wanted some attention to be beautiful again.”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love

“What do we know of ourselves except as through a prism, he wonders, the endless refractions of our mind turning back on itself like a dog chasing its own tail?”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love

“People came to understand one another not by words but by what had happened between them. It couldn't be said, in so many words.”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love

“It has taken her twenty years to learn what she is made of. And that modesty has made her what she was always destined to become, the heroine of her own tale―the woman who will be at last, before it is too late, the great love of one man's life and the salvation of her own.”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love

“Through his stamps he had become an eager and gregarious armchair traveler, a man with a spyglass at the window, even a raconteur. But he wouldn't ever really go anywhere, would he? It isn't in him to leave. It's the fact of the village behind him, its Norman stones and ancient mortar, its know quantities―this is what sets him free. For him, at least, just imagining the world is quite enough, as much as he can bear, in fact.”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love

“Once, she believed that she was only waiting for something to happen to her. And yet now it seems that something has begun around her. The thing she has been waiting for―though she cannot say what it is―has started making itself felt in the very air around her. She does not know how to behave, she realizes, nor what to expect.

She does not even know anymore what to hope for.”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love

“The Prince's Mead dance performances had always been preceded, for her, by such excitement that she was nearly sick from it, as though another body, another person, were struggling up from within her, that girl's exotic spirit rising up within her like a body from a grave, subduing her own nature by means of flashing looks and snapping castanets. She had loved those ritualized performances, yet afterward she had felt such grief, such disappointment that it was over, that she would not feel so inhabited again for another year.”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love

“The moon bobs at the window, full and bright, and she is drawn to the French doors to look out upon the sight. It still seems unfathomable to her that American astronauts have now set their feet on the moon, though she is struck by how quickly something that was once considered impossible can pass over into the realm of the accomplished.”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love

“...England, with its upsetting history of colonialism. It never did seem quite right to Norris, the British being so utterly British no matter where they were. One ought to adapt, he believes. One ought to accommodate. Change, after all, is the great elixir of life.”
― Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love