L.R. Lam > Quotes

“The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths.”
― Laura Lam, Pantomime

“The circus had been unlike anything I could ever imagine and I could not walk away. I wanted to be a part of the magic, create it and wield it with such skill that it looked effortless. I wanted to fly.”
― Laura Lam, Pantomime

“Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.”
― Laura Lam, Pantomime

“They say love and hate are closely tied, that they can turn at a moment’s notice.”
― Laura Lam, Pantomime

“Really, they were afraid of women. Or hated them. Wasn’t that much the same thing?”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“I’d rather go and make my own way than have it decided for me.”
― Laura Lam, Pantomime

“Everyone had grown used to giving orders to the pleasant-voiced feminine robots. Alexa, Siri, Sophia, Sage, do this for me. A perky ‘okay’, and your wish was her command. They’d all been doing it for years before women started realising the men in their lives had been conditioned to do the same to them. And by then it was too late.”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?”
― Laura Lam, Shadowplay

“It hadn’t happened in a moment, but a series of moments, as slow and insidious as the melting of the ice caps. Women had been ushered out of the workplace, so subtly that few noticed until it was too late. There had been no grand lowering of an iron curtain, with passports voided and bank accounts emptied. There had been a few men in sharp suits quoting scripture with silver tongues, but it was cursory, just enough to wrangle part of the Christian vote. Really, they were afraid of women. Or hated them. Wasn’t that much the same thing? The country saw those angry men as a fringe movement right up until one was elected president.”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“Earth was such a little, vulnerable thing in the grand scope of the universe.”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“For if there was one thing I’d learned in my life, it was that knowledge was power. Knowledge was escape. Books were thresholds, and you could cross them and leave yourself behind, or use what you found inside to transform into someone else.”
― L.R. Lam, Dragonfall

“Humans are messy. We are not binary; we don't exist in ones and zeroes. This or that. My friend was strong enough to keep pushing back- to recognize the Oracle was trying to change her very identity- but most don't. She became who she always knew she was after casting off the Oracle's chains.”
― Laura Lam, Seven Devils

“Secrets, once spoken, have a way of running away from you. They cannot be gathered in again.”
― Laura Lam, Pantomime

“I was just thinking how the purr of a contented cat is one of my favorite sounds in the world. There's something so comforting about it, isn't there?”
― Laura Lam, Shadowplay

“Never are we as honest as at night, alone with thoughts and nightmares.”
― Laura Lam, Shadowplay

“Whenever I asked her to tell me what happened up there, Naomi would say no one who has been to space could ever describe it to someone who hasn’t.”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“Naomi had little faith left in anyone willing to do what it takes to get into power.”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“A magician creates magic and mesmerizes the audience. But it is a pantomime, and the audience knows that it’s a ruse. It’s in the name: a “magic trick”. They play along when the magician tugs his sleeves to show there is nothing hidden within them, or that the top hat is empty of a rabbit, or eggs, or flowers. Beneath the façade there is only sleight of hand, wires and contraptions, misdirection at a key moment.
“But what the audience does not realize is that it’s not always trickery. Or at least, not quite.”
― Laura Lam, Shadowplay

“I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.”
― Laura Lam, Pantomime

“There is no one way to be a magician any more than there is only one way to be human.”
― Laura Lam, Shadowplay

“I’m tired of the -isms they love to use to break us down.”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope.”
― Laura Lam, Shadowplay

“So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead.”
― Laura Lam, Shadowplay

“The crew of the Atalanta were only five women out of all of humanity, but they could still found a whole new place for humans to flourish. Sometimes you only need one tiny proportion of the population to enact change”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“Books were thresholds, and you could cross them and leave yourself behind, or use what you found inside to transform into someone else.”
― L.R. Lam, Dragonfall

“This is your first big setback. How are you going to react to it? That’s what’ll show your mettle. Not the failure, but what you do next.”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“But scientists veered from naming things poetically—drawing from myth and legend—to incredibly factual, with letters and numbers or baldly stating the obvious.”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“Evan Kan: It doesn't matter. We wasted time. Went our different directions. I know I messed up, after my dad died. I shut down. By the time I realized how I felt, you were already with Cole. So I stepped back. Tried to forget. Dated other people. Nothing stuck. Then you divorced, but you were in Scotland. I could have booked a flight. Or called. Something.

Evan Kan: Haven't you wondered why I agreed to be Valerie's point of contact on Earth? I didn't do it for her.”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“Never are we as honest as at night, alone with thoughts and nightmares.” Elladan Proverb The”
― Laura Lam, Shadowplay

“I no longer dreamed of dragons—I only dreamed about one.”
― L.R. Lam, Emberclaw