Sacha Lamb > Quotes

“Its heart was heavier with the weight of the young worker’s words. But should a heart not be heavy, in a world full of injustice?”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“To hell with morning services!” said Little Ash, because this was what the angel should expect from him. “I have been a prisoner—why should my first morning of freedom be spent in services!”

“Because,” said Uriel, “that way you will remember who it was that saved you.”

Practically speaking, Uriel was the one who’d saved him.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“Neither of my moms are technically witches," he says, primly. "We are just a highly intuitive family. With, uhh, an especially fine-tuned sense of impending doom."

"Mine too," I tell him. "It’s called being Jewish. Doesn’t make me magic.”
― Sacha Lamb, Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live

“You are learning new things,” said the rebbe. “That’s what a journey is for. Hush, now. It’s all right.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“doing business was a terrible, demonic way to describe the feeling of being needed. It wasn’t doing business. It was being a mitzvah.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“Perhaps being a Light of God is difficult when you’re in a dank box on the ocean.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“There’s a feeling when you really get a handle on your plot that’s like when you’re getting to the end of a jigsaw puzzle and each piece you fit makes the next one fit faster. I love that feeling. Rewriting to add foreshadowing and strengthen the themes, that’s really fun.”
― Sacha Lamb

“He knew from experience that it was possible to appear one way and feel quite another, and had developed a sense for when a person was wearing not only their clothes but also their body as an ill-fitting garment.”
(Part 1, Chapter 2, Page 16)”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“The same. Sure. You, with your freckles and your bright open eyes that your mom probably says are hazel or even green even though they’re basically just brown. You, a team player. You, going by Ian, and getting away with it.”
― Sacha Lamb, Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live

“Finally, he said, “That’s my Rose. Blessed be the God who gives men daughters.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“He says he’s not worried. He thinks him hanging out with me will protect me. He doesn’t think he could ever be a target like me. I don’t know how he can be so confident. If our positions were reversed, I’d stay a mile away from him.”
― Sacha Lamb, Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live

“Little Ash truly believed that he was the same sort of creature as boys… The angel, however, merely found it convenient to wear a shape in which one could easily study the holy books. Inside itself, it felt closer in kinship to the books themselves, or to the sorts of things an angel might be tasked to look after, like sunlight and rain.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country