Mermaids in Paradise
Lydia Millet
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Called by the sirens and followed by an albatross.”
“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.”
“You don’t see a fish in a chair often.”
“ "One thing. I've got experience with explosives. Another thing. I've got explosives.”
“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.”
“We all have our skill sets, right?”
“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.”
“The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.”
“Plus if there were really mermaids, I hoped they didn’t look like Ariel.”
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Book Keywords:
fish, charles-darwin, gun, sirens, rpg, conquistadors, skill-sets, mermaids, pen, academia, albatross, chair
