lamb QUOTES

72 " And then he draws the lamb in one smooth strong stroke, and slaps and rakes its wet mosslike fur to make it breathe, feels the power of its fast heartbeat in the chicken-bone cage of its ribs, still wet in his hands from the grease of birth, all these things of life, from jissom to mucus slavered between thighs to the wet sack of birth and glistening oiled newborn thing—all of these things of life awatered. "

― Cynan Jones , The Dig

73 " Prior to the monotheistic Yahweh, the gods made sense, in that they had familiar, if supra-human appetites—they didn’t just want a lamb shank, they wanted the best lamb shank, wanted to seduce all the wood nymphs, and so on. But the early Jews invented a god with none of those desires, who was so utterly unfathomable, unknowable, as to be pants-wettingly terrifying. So even if His actions are mysterious, when He intervenes you at least get the stress-reducing advantages of attribution—it may not be clear what the deity is up to, but you at least know who is responsible for the locust swarm or the winning lottery ticket. There is Purpose lurking, as an antidote to the existential void. "

― Robert M. Sapolsky , Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

74 " i am the lion and
you are the lamb and
as prophesied,
we will lie down together. "

― Thomas Lloyd Qualls , Love Jaywalks: Poems From The Novel Waking Up At Rembrandts

75 " What kind of world have we built when it is more acceptable to ask for sex than a cuddle session? … Have we so stripped our sexuality of inherent value that it becomes the sacrificial lamb on the altar of connection, because everything else is too precious to risk? I'm the first one to say that my body is an amusement park, and I like to have fun with it – and let other people ride it – but there is still a divinity in it. It is no less precious than our fears, our smiles, our hopes, our tears. And this goes not just for women, but for all people. I've known men and dominants who felt they could be vulnerable only during sex, and so they would ask for that instead of talking about what was bothering them, or even simply as a distraction from their own thoughts and troubles. "

76 " A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane." Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. " He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. " But Dumbledore isn't real." " I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. " Have you ever met him?" " This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. " Are you listening to them?" " No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace. "

77 " If you are ready to trade the hollow self-made beauty of this world for the glorious Christ-built beauty of a set-apart young woman, this is where it all begins. Denying self, taking up your cross, and following the Lamb wherever He leads. In other words, letting go of all preoccupation with self: our comfort, our pleasure, our agenda, our popularity, our ability to gain the world's approval, even our own dreams and desires. And, as Paul did, treating all those things as rubbish for the excellence of the knowledge of Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings (Philippians 3:7-9). "

― Leslie Ludy

78 " No, little one, George's ghost won't come back. Human beings don't have souls. No soul, no ghost. Simple." " How can you say that?" protested Mopple. " We don't know whether humans have souls or not." " Every lamb knows that your soul is in your sense of smell. And human beings don't have very good noses." Maude herself had an excellent sense of smell, and often thought about the problem of souls and noses." So you'd only see a very small ghost. Nothing to be afraid of. "

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