Lambs for Dinner Quotes

“Maybe the past could never be past. Maybe it's burned into us like the stars are burned into the backdrop of the sky, irrevocable and ageless.”
― Joyce Chua, Lambs for Dinner

“You can't leave someone without taking a piece of them with you.”
― Joyce Chua, Lambs for Dinner

“If fear and hatred made beasts of us, then it was our stories that made us human.”
― Joyce Chua, Lambs for Dinner

“In between darkness and light was the place that madmen ran to. It was the shadowed corner in fever dreams that woke us up, cloying, alone, and tangled with fear.”
― Joyce Chua, Lambs for Dinner

“I used to believe everyone was a little crazy in his or her own way, that we were all allowed a moment of insanity, of letting go and giving in, from time to time.

I used to think everyone would understand if somebody slipped because everyone went through such inexplicable bouts of madness too.”
― Joyce Chua, Lambs for Dinner

“Everyone around me was a liability. This was the life I had chosen and it always managed to catch up with me.”
― Joyce Chua, Lambs for Dinner

“Conformity was safe. It could tame the wildest beast and temper the hardest savage. If I couldn't run from my past, then maybe I could bleach it out of sight, if not wipe it clean.”
― Joyce Chua, Lambs for Dinner

“There are those who seek glory over peace. Never leave your back facing them.”
― Joyce Chua, Land of Sand and Song

“Even in the deepest winter and the driest desert, hope springs eternal.”
― Joyce Chua, Land of Sand and Song