Mermaids in Paradise Quotes

“Called by the sirens and followed by an albatross.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“We were a roiling mass of opinion, most of it mean. Here we sat at civilization’s technological peak, and what we chose to do on that shining pinnacle was hate each other’s guts.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“You don’t see a fish in a chair often.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“ "One thing. I've got experience with explosives. Another thing. I've got explosives.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“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.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“Mer-people could be read as a colonialist term,” explained the biologist.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“We don’t want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“One man’s weakness is another man’s mercy.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“Plus if there were really mermaids, I hoped they didn’t look like Ariel.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“Freudian Slip: When You Mean One Thing And Say Your Mother.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“We all have our skill sets, right?”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise

“To hear Chip talk you’d think every Nebraskan male knows how to put a horseshoe on a mule. They know how to bring forth grain from dirt, or what a combine harvester is. They get what happens to that brought-forth grain, the steps before the Cheerios. The women knit long underwear and are adept at fruit canning.”
― Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise