“
Hestia sighed. ‘Stepping inside a mirror is like stepping into Pandora’s Box. It is a world of illusion and fragility. If the mirror is broken then so, too, will be whoever is inside the mirror at the time it is broken.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
You begin to see things differently once you are dead.
Isaac Bonnyman
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
Asking me to just be myself is like asking a mirror to stop changing every time someone different looks at it.”
Q
”
”
Frank Lambert (Cult of the Clan)
“
Evil is not man-made. Evil is natural, like the sun rising each morning, the moon revolving around the earth, and the strong eating the weak.
Jeremiah Hobb
”
”
Frank Lambert (Cult of the Clan)
“
You are thinking in human terms again,
and forgetting Time is neither tick nor tock...
Jarle Heavyfoot
”
”
Frank Lambert (Ghost Doors)
“
Staring at the wraith’s left hand, Zam saw a stump where its index finger should have been and knew then that the severed finger moving around in his pocket belonged to the wraith.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
The salpinx is not simply an instrument of summoning. It is also an instrument of binding. Since you followed its sorrowful tones to my side, you are now bound to me like man is bound to treachery.”
Jeremiah Hobb
”
”
Frank Lambert (Cult of the Clan)
“
The relater slipped off Zam’s head like mellifluous honey and slid onto the floor deflated and seemingly sated.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Ghost Doors)
“
The relator is part tardigrade, part fungus and all supernatural. It’s a new species of life bred for one specific reason, to communicate with Time.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Ghost Doors)
“
Ackx must have owed him big time,” Q said in his drawly Clint Eastwood voice. “A favour like that doesn’t come cheap.”
Bonnyman spat into the fire. “A favour like that is only made between psychosis and a lust for power.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
I think we are all psychotic, the children of the Underworld.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Ghost Doors)
“
You could never kill a wyte, child. Instead of thinking of death, you need to think in terms of aging. The old cannot help but become less ambitious and more accepting as each moment ticks on by.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Ghost Doors)
“
The doorways into hell are mostly inside the mind.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
It was 1538 and John Lambert had been outed as an Edian when, after hearing Frederic Clarence had written a pamphlet denouncing Edian magic, he turned into a dog and ate the papers, prompting Clarence to cry out, "That dog ate my scriptwork!
”
”
Cynthia Hand (My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1))
“
When it reached the mirror’s edge, the blood began to drip and the synchronous echo of each drop that hit the white, porcelain sink below almost felt relaxing.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
Hestia sighed. “Do not stay longer than you must inside the mirror’s edge. Glass is like a heart. It has a fragile nature. It is easily broken.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
You were disrespectful to a god I follow,” Eufame said to Bonnyman. “I would protect him—”
“With your life,” Bonnyman said before Eufame could continue. “Guess what, ghost, you are already dead.”
“As are you, zombie” Eufame said.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
You are thinking in human terms again, and forgetting Time is neither tick nor tock...
”
”
Frank Lambert (Ghost Doors)
“
Suddenly feeling tired, Bonnyman yawned with his eyes closed. When he re-opened them, the changeling stood a few feet in front of him, staring at Bonnyman like it was a meal waiting to be eaten.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
Slink sniffed the air. “There’s a hint of demon in the air,” he said, “and something else. Dead flesh that continues to walk. That can mean only one thing. The Cult have been here.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Ghost Doors)
“
Time is the narrator of life. Without Time speaking, nothing would exist.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Ghost Doors)
“
Hestia looked at Eli like he was dressed in a gorilla suit and immediately morphed into a Rottweiler the size of a lion. “You still think I should wear clothes,” she challenged Eli.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
Ryon posed the question in all their minds -what the fuck is he?
The love child of Criss Angel and Adam Lambert? Jaxon tossed back.
His friend gave a soft snort that might've been a laugh. With a little Nikki Sixx thrown in, sure.
”
”
J.D. Tyler (Primal Law (Alpha Pack, #1))
“
Over the years, The Cult of the Clan’s finest hunters had tried and failed to capture a changeling and Bonnyman was determined he would not make the same mistakes as his peers. Their stories littered the pages of the Cult’s history like garbage discarded in the street.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
The girl looked up to the ceiling and just before she disappeared completely she spoke one last time. ‘They made him eat more flesh,’ she said. ‘Not dead flesh this time. They made him eat the flesh from something that was still alive. He ate flesh from the creature who wept at night.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annnie Lambert
”
”
David Baldacci (The Innocent (Will Robie, #1))
“
i only know how to exist when i'm wanted.
”
”
Mary Lambert
“
The shaver was the size and shape of a brick and almost too hot to hold in his hand. It hissed like it was angry with Zam and its three rotating shaving heads, behind the flimsy looking protective screen, looked like they wanted to rip the skin from his face before chewing it up and spitting it back out with a triumphant sizzle.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
Time’s voice is everything you can physically experience. It is a favourite smell, a first taste from childhood, a vision shared with one you love. Time touches you as if it had fingers that possess infinite knowledge of how to caress with utmost beauty and you in turn can touch Time. You can feel it’s breath as if it was your own sleeping child’s.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Ghost Doors)
“
He is a man, I think," he said, "who cares for nothing but a joke. He is a dangerous man."
Lambert laughed in the act of lifting some macaroni to his mouth.
"Dangerous!" he said. "You don't know little Quin, sir!"
"Every man is dangerous," said the old man, without moving, "Who cares only for one thing. I was once dangerous myself.
”
”
G.K. Chesterton (The Napoleon of Notting Hill)
“
Zam watched as the creature began to fade, until it disappeared altogether and all that remained was his own reflection in the mirror. He wondered if he was still sleeping, wondered if his nightmares were seeping into his waking moments. Maybe he was just going crazy. The only sign he was not going crazy was the fine line of blood that slowly trailed down the inside of the mirror.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
You will not experience dramatic change in your struggle as long as you use accountability to describe your sins instead of declaring your need for help in the midst of temptation.
”
”
Heath Lambert (Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace)
“
Bonnyman quickly walked over to the head and picked it up by the hair. He held it in front of his face. ‘Tell me whose orders you follow,’ he said in a gentle voice that Zam didn’t think he possessed.
The wraith looked past Bonnyman, staring at its body twitching on the floor. ‘Never your orders,’ it gasped, before closing its eyes forever.
”
”
Frank Lambert (Xyz)
“
Do I make you nervous, Madame Lambert?”
“No. I just prefer to keep my distance.”
“Evil isn’t contagious.”
“I thought you said you weren’t the most evil man in the world?”
“I’m not. But that doesn’t mean I’m a good man.”
“I don’t think anyone would argue with that.
”
”
Anne Stuart (Ice Storm (Ice, #4))
“
The phone beeped - M fine but these two guys R on me like cougars on Adam Lambert.
”
”
Elisabeth Staab (King of Darkness (Chronicles of Yavn, #1))
“
I, Deanna Lambert, belong to no one and no one belongs to me.
I don't know what to do.
”
”
Sara Zarr (Story of a Girl)
“
Let's shake hands & reach across those party lines, you got ur friends just like I got mine, we might think a little differently but we got a lot n common u will see, we're just like you....ONLY PRETTIER!!
”
”
Miranda Lambert
“
the only parts I remember of my childhood
are lies I told myself to feel better
”
”
Mary Lambert (Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across)
“
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
”
”
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles
“
Every obstacle in life will fade away once success becomes the only goal allowed to enter your mind
”
”
G.L. Lambert (Men Don't Love Women Like You: The Brutal Truth About Dating, Relationships, and How to Go from Placeholder to Game Changer)
“
Pon my sivvy, Miss Lambert! Aren’t you quite the dandyzette today? Fit to knock a feller oolter-poolter on his beam ends!
”
”
Amitav Ghosh (Sea of Poppies)
“
I could easily understand why Lambert was bored with this peace which gave us back our lives without giving us back our reasons for living.
”
”
Simone de Beauvoir (The Mandarins)
“
I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion is really important. I wouldn't want to show up for a performance in something that is absolutely the opposite of who I am as an artist.
”
”
Miranda Lambert
“
You will know you are finally free from sin when you have full access to it and yet no desire for it.
”
”
Heath Lambert (Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace)
“
I like difficult old women, she said. I'm in training to be one myself.
”
”
Rosina Lippi (The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square)
“
Just because I evolved, doesn’t mean I am spineless.
Just because I am malleable, doesn’t mean I am undeserving
”
”
Mary Lambert (Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across)
“
I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself
if I could just come in I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.
”
”
Miranda Lambert (Miranda Lambert - Revolution)
“
All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.
”
”
Francis Lambert
“
Other people are only as powerful as you allow them to be in your world. Shrink the thoughts you give them, and you will literally shrink their role in your life.
”
”
G.L. Lambert (Men Don't Love Women Like You: The Brutal Truth About Dating, Relationships, and How to Go from Placeholder to Game Changer)
“
The dead man's face was pale and bloodless. The fierce white lights in the morgue showed up every detail mercilessly and every last pore and pock-mark was revealed, the history of a life, now reduced to a mere handful of scars.
'Always nice to see you Mark, but what brings you in so late on Friday afternoon?' Lambert said nothing, staring at Petrie's corpse, before turning to the coroner. John Humby was older and getting close to retirement and the two had been friends for a very long time. Humby resembled a large blood-hound, the more so the older he got and he was smiling over at Lambert, who was still thinking about the murder.
”
”
Stevie O'Connor (Under The Stones)
“
You need more than a change in your circumstances to win the battle, you need a change in your heart.
”
”
Heath Lambert (Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace)
“
Sometimes you have to give up the easy thing and do the right one,
”
”
Charles Lambert (The Children's Home)
“
We may scale cliffs; but to tramp forever in the mud is another thing.
”
”
Honoré de Balzac (Louis Lambert)
“
I'm a mother fucking human holocaust!
”
”
Jonathan Culver (Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus)
“
The world had taught me to dress up my trauma in short skirts and secret bathroom crying, to protect the fragility of boys at all costs
”
”
Mary Lambert (Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert)
“
I want every piece of me to crash into every piece of you,
I swear to god that’s how they make stars.
”
”
Mary Lambert
“
One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience.
”
”
Royston Lambert
“
Just show me where you want him. You can take the first shower, princess.”
“How very thoughtful of you. But I imagine Samuel and his wife
have more than one shower in this lovely house.”
“I’ll be in a back bedroom, out of sight. Don’t be squeamish.
Madame Lambert. I promise your virtue is safe with me.”
“I’m relieved to hear it.
”
”
Anne Stuart (Ice Storm (Ice, #4))
“
Opposites attract, mom.’
‘Yes, but in your case, darling, it is hydrogen and oxygen, and we all know what happened the Hindenberg.’
Just in case their daughter wasn’t aware of the ill-fated zeppelin, Lambert clarified: ‘This too will end in flames.
”
”
Jonathan Dunne (Lighthouse Jive)
“
In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.
”
”
Jonathan Culver (Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus)
“
Happiness is a short lived emotion which problems kill.
”
”
Nailixa Lambert
“
the thing no one wants to talk about is that the normal American woman is extremely weak when placed in closed quarters with a man she likes.
”
”
G.L. Lambert (Ho Tactics: How to MindF**k A Man into Spending, Spoiling, and Sponsoring)
“
Sin is a harsh master, not a submissive servant
”
”
Heath Lambert (Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace)
“
An immediate and critical test whether your sorrow is godly or worldly is whether you are willing to accept the consequences of your sin
”
”
Heath Lambert (Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace)
“
We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.
”
”
Ini-Amah Lambert
“
Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.
”
”
Ini-Amah Lambert (Cracking the Stock Market Code: How to Make Money in Shares)
“
Rooms are never alone," said the Doctor with a laugh. "Only the people who live them can be alone.
”
”
Charles Lambert (The Children's Home)
“
somehow i always get stronger when i'm on my second drink
”
”
Miranda Lambert
“
One conquers the world, the other complains.
”
”
G.L. Lambert
“
Love is a mirror, a map, a lesson in unfixed gifts
”
”
Mary Lambert (Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across)
“
Dollars had once gathered like autumn leaves on the wooden collection plates; dollars were the flourishing sign of God's specifically American favor, made manifest in the uncountable millions of Carnegie and Mellon and Henry Ford and Catholina Lambert. But amid this fabled plenty the whiff of damnation had cleared of dollars and cents the parched ground around Clarence Wilmot.
”
”
John Updike (In the Beauty of the Lilies)
“
Now the valley cried with anger, "Mount your horses draw your sword." And they killed the mountain people, so they won their just reward. Now they stood beside the treasure, on the mountain dark and red. Turned the stone and looked beneath it. "Peace on earth" was all it said. Go ahead and hate your neighbor,go ahead and cheat a friend. Do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end. There won't be any trumpets blowing come the judgment day. On the bloody morning after one tin soldier rides away.
”
”
Dennis Lambert
“
Absurdly, I placed an order for a Venti Chai Latte while Judge Lambert famously told The Defendant that someday soon a current of electricity would pass through his body until he was pronounced dead by the warden, and that he should, even more absurdly, take care of himself.
”
”
Jessica Knoll (Bright Young Women)
“
I despised Judge Lambert with every fiber of my being, the way he addressed me as ma’am and The Defendant as young man, then later as cowboy, compadre, partner. I was twenty-three years old to The Defendant’s thirty-two. I had earned top marks in my first year of law school. I was the young woman, the compadre, closer to his equal than The Defendant, but you never would have known it by the way the judge spoke to him.
”
”
Jessica Knoll (Bright Young Women)
“
Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean resources, and with each persistent blow of the innovation hammer shapes the still malleable idea against the anvil of passion, vision, insight, strategy, and principles to forge a fitting vessel of a creative concern.
”
”
Ini-Amah Lambert (Cracking the Stock Market Code: How to Make Money in Shares)
“
In spite of photographs taken in beer halls or nightclubs showing her cuddling up to some strapping, smirking youth, it seems that the romantic cliché was true: when she met Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun met her destiny
”
”
Angela Lambert
“
...he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to call them terrorists, which didn't preclude, and he had emphasized this, that nonterrorists were also capable of atrocities, Auschwitz, for instance, was not the work of terrorists but of state employees...
”
”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (The Assignment, or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers)
“
God says that in place of immorality there should be something else, and that something else is thankfulness.
”
”
Heath Lambert (Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace)
“
All I know of love is hunger.
”
”
Mary Lambert (Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across)
“
Love your own body like your mom loved your baby feet.
”
”
Mary Lambert
“
Women may come to the recovery process to "fix" their relationships, but what they end up learning is how to rescue and restore themselves. Many women believe, and you may too, that they need to speak and act differently so their partner behaves more favorably toward them. If your partner blames you for what "you made him do to you," over time you will end up blaming yourself. Your task is to realize that you are not responsible for his abusive behavior. Women tend to work hard to avoid being hurt or to seop their partners from abusing them, but they aren't successful. You cannot make your partner abuse you and you can't make him not abuse you. These are his choices and his alone. The task is to refocus on yourself and your recovery.
”
”
Carol A. Lambert (Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner)
“
The truth that God wants you to know is that your relationship with Jesus is bigger than your struggles. If the only time your interested in walking with Jesus is you want his help, you are not walking in the fullness of the loving relationship that Jesus wants to have with you.
”
”
Heath Lambert
“
The front door of the Flippant Witch gave a series of loud clicks and swung inward. Renard Lambert, his blue-and-purple finery resembling a plum in the twitching lanterns, practically hurled himself through the open doorway
“Widdershins!” he called loudly, cape flowing behind him, “I—gaaack!” He ducked, barely in time to avoid the carafe that shattered loudly against the wall just behind his head. The tinkling of broken glass, a dangerous entry chime indeed, sounded around him.
“Oh,” Genevieve said, her tone only vaguely contrite. “It's just your friend. Sorry, Renard.”
“Sorry? Sorry?! What the hell were you—ah. Um, hello, ah, Widdershins."
Widdershins, who had lurched to her feet as the door opened, was suddenly and forcibly reminded by Renard's stunned stare that Genevieve had disrobed her in order to get at the rapier wound. Blushing as furiously as a nun in a brothel, she ducked behind her blonde-haired friend and groped desperately for her shirt.
“Didn't mean to take your head off, Renard,” Genevieve said, mainly to distract him. “But you rather startled us.”
“Quite understandable,” the popinjay responded absently, his eyes flickering madly as he fought to locate some safe place to put them.
”
”
Ari Marmell (Thief's Covenant (Widdershins Adventures, #1))
“
By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United States. Thus the Founders ensured that in no official sense would America be a Christian Republic. Ten years after the Constitutional Convention ended its work, the country assured the world that the United States was a secular state, and that its negotiations would adhere to the rule of law, not the dictates of the Christian faith. The assurances were contained in the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797 and were intended to allay the fears of the Muslim state by insisting that religion would not govern how the treaty was interpreted and enforced. John Adams and the Senate made clear that the pact was between two sovereign states, not between two religious powers.
”
”
Franklin T. Lambert (The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America)
“
You know more useless crap, St. Clair. Good thing you're so darn cute," Josh says.
St. Clair smiles. "At least 'cemetary' sounds classier. And you must admit-this place is pretty classy. Or,I'm sorry." He turns back to me. "Would you rather be at the Lambert bash? I hear Dave Higgenbottom is bringing his beer bong."
"Higgenbaum."
"That's what I said. Higgenbum."
"Oh,leave him alone.Besides, by the time this place closes, we'll still have plenty of time to party." I roll my eyes at this last word.None of us have plans to attend,despite what I told Dave yesterday at lunch.
St. Clair nudges me with a tall thermos. "Perhaps you're upset because he won't have the opportunity to woo you with his astonishing knowledge of urban street racing."
I laugh. "Cut it out."
"And I hear he has exquisite taste in film. Maybe he'll take you to a midnight showing of Scooby-Doo 2."
I whack St. Clair with my bag, and he dodges aside,laughing.
”
”
Stephanie Perkins (Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1))
“
I remember that morning vividly
my eyes crusted from crying
Staring across from you
your cheeks smudged with campfire ash.
We smiled weakly at each other,
and I told myself we were good.
I promised I would stop drinking so much.
You believed me.
I looked over the boat at my reflection in the water.
I looked kind of happy
for someone who was drowning.
”
”
Mary Lambert (Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across)
“
Everything we encounter today is used by God to prepare us for tomorrow. he wastes no trials, withholds no blessings, nor does he hold back on the discipline of his soldiers. All He does prepares us for future usefulness as vessels of honor.
”
”
Rick Lambert (Polycarp, a destroyer of our gods (Grow in grace series Book 1))
“
I want to watch the fat lady win
I want her to stop apologizing for being fat
I wish I could say: Hey, perfect angel cutie pie:
You don’t owe anyone shit.
Stop apologizing for who you are.
Go eat a fucking sandwich and throw your scale away
Work out if you want to, lay on the couch if you want to
No one else lives in your body
You are enough, as you are, today
”
”
Mary Lambert (Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across)
“
It is symptomatic of the constricting specialism and the oppressive burden of fact of our time that it has been left to the imagination of a novelist, Marguerite Yourcenar, to create the broadest, the most balanced and in many ways the most authentic interpretation of the affair.
”
”
Royston Lambert
“
Si il y avait bien une chose que l'Occupation nous avait apprise, c'était à nous taire. A ne jamais montrer ce que nous pensions du IIIème Reich et de cette guerre. Nous n'étions que des détenus dans nos propres maisons, dans notre pays. Plus libres d'avoir une opinion. Parce que même nos pensées pouvaient nous enchaîner.
Ce soir, je l'avais oublié.
Pourtant il ne m'arrêta pas. Il ne me demanda pas de le suivre pour un petit interrogatoire. Après tout, il n'y avait que les résistants pour tenir un discours si tranché, non? Il n'y avait qu'eux pour oser dire de telles choses devant un caporal de la Wehrmacht. Alors pourquoi me tendit-il simplement sa fourche? Puisque la mienne était inutilisable...
J'hésitai à la prendre.
Quand je le fis, il refusa de la lâcher.
Nous restâmes là, une seconde. Nos mains se frôlant sur le manche en bois et nos regards accrochés.
- Je ne suis pas innocent c'est vrai, m'avoua-t-il. Je ne le serai jamais plus et je devrai vivre avec toutes mes fautes. J'ai tué, je tuerai sans doute encore. J'ai blessé et je blesserai encore. J'ai menti et je mentirai encore. Non, c'est vrai, il n'y a plus rien d'innocent en moi. Mais je l'ai été. Au début. Avant la guerre. Je l'étais vraiment, vous savez. Innocent.
Sa voix n'était qu'un murmure.
- Pourquoi me dites-vous ça?
- Pour que vous le sachiez.
- Mais pourquoi? demandai-je encore.
Il recula d'un pas.
- Bonne soirée, monsieur Lambert, dit-il sans me répondre.
Il quitta les écuries sans un bruit. Aussi discrètement qu'il était arrivé.
”
”
Lily Haime (À l'ombre de nos secrets)
“
Real Discipline: Wanting something, understanding why you want it, and then making a conscious and unwavering decision to abstain because you don’t need it.
Fake Discipline: Wanting something, not fully understanding why you want it so bad, and trying to hold out using willpower to fight the must have feeling.
”
”
G.L. Lambert (Ho Tactics: How to MindF**k A Man into Spending, Spoiling, and Sponsoring)
“
Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is concerned with everything in nature, and never receives an idea that does not evoke a feeling. Everything stirs him and everything is retained within him.
When the soul has been moved by an object itself, it is even more affected by the memory of the object. But in a man of genius imagination goes further: it recalls ideas with a more vivid feeling than it received them, because to these ideas are connected a thousand others more appropriate to arouse the feeling.
”
”
Jean-François de Saint-Lambert
“
Have you ever seen a stampede of horses?
Do you wonder what the hooves
look like from underneath?
Have you tasted the blood from biting
your own lips because you
couldn’t say no loud enough?
I never fought back. I didn’t punch him. I kept my
thighs tight and closed, but once he’s inside you,
you wish you were a streetlamp.
A seat belt.
A box of nails, of rust, something hard and ruined.
You’ll wish you were a wild pony, a slick fish on a line,
anything but a woman.
Once he’s inside you, you just kind of give up
and your eyes glaze over.
They stay that way for years
”
”
Mary Lambert (Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across)
“
To her father who had taught her what she knew of botany, the love of Nature had been a kind of religion, a form of spiritual striving: he had believed that in trying to comprehend the inner vitality of each species, human beings could transcend the mundane world and its artificial divisions. If botany was the Scripture of this religion, then horticulture was its form of worship: tending a garden was, for Pierre Lambert, no mere matter of planting seeds and pruning branches--it was a spiritual discipline, a means of communicating with forms of life that were necessarily mute and could be understood only through a careful study of their own modes of expression--the languages of efflorescence, growth and decay: only thus, he taught Paulette, could human beings apprehend the vital energies that constitute the Spirit of the Earth.
”
”
Amitav Ghosh (River of Smoke)
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Threats
All threats are unacceptable, whether it has to do with turning off your credit card, abandoning you, or physically harming you. Threats are meant to coerce, restrict your life, and make you unsafe. When you hear a threat of any kind, you can tell you partner this" "That's a threat. You can't threaten me if you expect to have a relationship with me." Be consistent with addressing his treats. If he doesn''t show that he's taking you seriously, then you'll likely know what you need to do.
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Carol A. Lambert (Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner)
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Looking at your own experience of abuse, many factors can influence the degree of traumatic impact you experience. Howe we handle stress in our lives varies; some of us have learned better coping strategies than others. The severity, intensity, frequency, and length of time the abusive episodes have lasted all strongly impact your response as well. Other powerful influences include the length of time your personal traumatic reaction lasts after your partner's abuse stops and your history, before you ever met your partner.
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Carol A. Lambert (Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner)
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Women are taught to sacrifice, to play nice, to live an altruistic life because a good girl is always rewarded in the end. This is not a virtue; it is propaganda. Submission gets you a ticket to future prosperity that will never manifest. By the time you realize the ticket to success and happiness you have been sold isn’t worth the paper it was printed on, it will be too late. Go on, spend a quarter of your life, even half of your life, in the service of others and you will realize you were hustled. You do not manifest your destiny by placing others first! A kingdom built on your back doesn’t become your kingdom, it becomes your folly. History does not remember the slaves of Egypt that built the pyramids, they remember the Pharaohs that wielded the power over those laborers. Yet here you are, content with being a worker bee, motivated by some sales pitch that inspires you to work harder for some master than you work for yourself, with this loose promise that one day you will share in his wealth. Altruism is your sin. Selfishness is your savior. Ruthless aggression and self-preservation are not evil. Why aren’t females taught these things? Instead of putting themselves first, women are told to be considerate and selfless. From birth, they have been beaten in the head with this notion of “Don’t be selfish!” Fuck that. Your mother may have told you to wait your turn like a good girl, but I’m saying cut in front of that other bitch. Club Success is about to hit capacity, and you don’t want to be the odd woman out. Where are the powerful women? Those who refuse to play by those rules and want more out of life than what a man allows her to have? I created a category for such women and labeled them Spartans. Much like the Greek warriors who fought against all odds, these women refuse to surrender and curtsy before the status quo. Being
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G.L. Lambert (Men Don't Love Women Like You: The Brutal Truth About Dating, Relationships, and How to Go from Placeholder to Game Changer)
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He had again and again made out for himself that he might have kept his little boy, his little dull boy who had died at school of rapid diphtheria, if he had not in those years so insanely given himself to merely missing the mother. It was the soreness of his remorse that the child had in all likelihood not really been dull—had been dull, as he had been banished and neglected, mainly because the father had been unwittingly selfish. This was doubtless but the secret habit of sorrow, which had slowly given way to time; yet there remained an ache sharp enough to make the spirit, at the sight now and again of some fair young man just growing up, wince with the thought of an opportunity lost. Had ever a man, he had finally fallen into the way of asking himself, lost so much and even done so much for so little? There had been particular reasons why all yesterday, beyond other days, he should have had in one ear this cold enquiry. His name on the green cover, where he had put it for Mrs. Newsome, expressed him doubtless just enough to make the world—the world as distinguished, both for more and for less, from Woollett—ask who he was. He had incurred the ridicule of having to have his explanation explained. He was Lambert Strether because he was on the cover, whereas it should have been, for anything like glory, that he was on the cover because he was Lambert Strether. He would have done anything for Mrs. Newsome, have been still more ridiculous—as he might, for that matter, have occasion to be yet; which came to saying that this acceptance of fate was all he had to show at fifty-five.
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Henry James (The Ambassadors)
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Lecturile Autodidactului mă pun în încurcătură întotdeauna. Brusc, îmi revin în minte numele ultimilor autori pe care i-a consultat: Lambert, Langlois, Larbaletrier, Lastex, Lavergne. Dintr-o străfulgerare am înţeles metoda Autodidactului: se instruieşte în ordine alfabetică. Il contemplu cu un fel de admiraţie. Cîtă voinţă îi trebuie ca să realizeze încetul cu încetul, cu încăpăţînare, un proiect atît de vast? Într-o zi, acum şapte ani (mi-a mărturisit că studiază de şapte ani) a intrat cu mare pompă în această sală. A parcurs cu privirea nenumăratele cărţi care acoperă pereţii şi probabil a spus, asemenea lui Rastignac: «Intre noi doi acum, Cunoaştere omenească!» S-a dus apoi să ia prima carte din primul raft de la extrema dreaptă; a deschis-o la prima pagină cu un sentiment de respect şi de teamă, însoţit cu o hotărîre de neclintit. Astăzi se află la L. A trecut deodată de la studiul coleopterelor la cel al teoriei cuantelor. A citit tot; a înmagazinat în capul lui jumătate din ce se ştie despre partenogeneză, jumătate din argumentele împotriva vivisecţiei. În urma lui, înaintea lui, e un univers. Şi se apropie ziua cînd va spune, închizînd ultimul volum din ultimul raft de la extrema stîngă: «Şi acum?»
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Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea)
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What makes a successful relationship? . . . Research shows that when a partner dominates another through the abuse of power, it is a prime deterrent to a successful relationship (Greenberg and Goldman 2008). When a controlling partner uses coercive tactics to overpower you, it is a setup for the relationship to fail - without exception. Research about marital relationships in general reveals that husbands are likely to receive more support from their spouse and this fair far better, while women tend to receive less support and experience greater stress from giving support. These are among the conditions that contribute to the higher rates of depression in women.
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Carol A. Lambert (Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner)