Sweet Lamb of Heaven Quotes

“This is why parents want grandchildren. Really they want their own children back again, they long to feel that vanished and complete love.”
― Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven

“Let God leave us! Let us grow up. Let us walk forward on our own. Because we need the silence of the holy: we need the sacred and equally we need its maddening silence. And in the curious privacy and relief of that silence we can go out into the chaos and commit a thousand acts of minor and gleeful splendor all our own. If it's our tragedy to be left by God, then let it also be our luck.”
― Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven

“Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.”
― Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven

“His platform includes a prolife agenda, for instance, which “values the sanctity of every human soul,” and also “believes in the greatness of the American family.” The word family, on his glossy-but-down-home webpage in its hues of red, white and blue, is a code for you, where you also means right, deserving, genuine and better than those others, you know, the ones who aren’t you.”
― Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven