13 Quotes by Andrew Miller

Control is an advertising concept.

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

The years of us. Our farm and our people. The children, from this distance now almost all completely interchangeable faces and forms, smiling and running and growing so easily into this other thing. So unfettered by time. So shaped by our story, yet somehow so completely untouched by any of it.

Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.

The writers themselves … they were pitifully out of context. So self-assured, so assuming, so completely wrong. Unable – any of them – to imagine what might be coming.

Can a cat be the true love of a human’s life? The one great and enduring emotional connection?

It’s not about fucking,” she asserted as we clucked nervously over her diagram. “It’s about our species. We need to breed.

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

Often, one turns to jazz.