Charles Lambert Quotes & Sayings

It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world is changed. One letter separates Word from World, and that letter is like the number one, or an 'I', or a shaft of light between almost closed curtains. There is an old letter called a thorn, which jags and tears at the throat as it's uttered. Later he learns that Grammar and Glamour share the same deeper root, which is further magic, and there can be neither magic without that root, nor plant. He's lost in it like Chid in Child, or God reversed into Dog. Somewhere inside him is a colon. A sentence can last for life. — Charles Lambert

He'd never wanted to know, which is also a sort of knowing. — Charles Lambert

Rooms are never alone," said the Doctor with a laugh. "Only the people who live them can be alone. — Charles Lambert

The family home is where the deepest resentments grow, subtle, relentless as moss, the furring of surfaces organic and gradual, as though life were no longer flesh and blood but bricks and mortar, a suffocation. — Charles Lambert

Sometimes you have to give up the easy thing and do the right one, — Charles Lambert

Perhaps she wasn't ill at all in the end, but simply more revealed. — Charles Lambert