128 Quotes by Lydia Millet

It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

You don’t see a fish in a chair often.

Aw, group hug! No one's a mindless robot anymore. Score!

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

We need people like you, Dobson,” said Gina. “In academia, where I work. Man, do we ever need people like you. People who have been trained. To do the high-level work. Such as killing.

We don’t want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.

Once we lived in a summer country.

Plus if there were really mermaids, I hoped they didn’t look like Ariel.

Called by the sirens and followed by an albatross.