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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6d04224 | Or else rip out the odd pages and leave me the even. | David Mitchell | ||
| 51509e5 | Heresy is fissiparous, however. | David Mitchell | ||
| 7686793 | The sequence of doors we passed made me think of all the rooms of my past and future. The hospital ward I was born in, classrooms, tents, churches, offices, hotels, museums, nursing homes, the room I'll die in. (Has it been built yet?) | David Mitchell | ||
| a201461 | A blue jay swoops onto a fungus-ruffled tree-stump by Hershey's grave, emits a volley of harsh jeers, then a breathy trill. | David Mitchell | ||
| b1151cb | The blue jay threads a flight-path through stripes of brightness and stripes of mossy dark. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1b2a6ea | Control is about fear, see. If you're afraid enough of the reprisals, you don't say no, you don't fight back, you don't run away. Saying yes is how you survive. It becomes normal. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8e00a2e | A hairy beggar kneeling by a puddle of vomit turns out to be a dog. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1139881 | they stand still as the world eddies about them. | David Mitchell | ||
| 7711364 | The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3b6b706 | So we surrender to stupidity, do we?" Freedom of speech is sacrificed at the altar of manufactured rage." | David Mitchell | ||
| 8bb4dda | Sometimes," Brubeck bites into an apple, "sometimes I want to be everywhere, all at once, so badly I could just ..." Brubeck mimes a bomb going off in his ribcage. "Do you never get that feeling?" | David Mitchell | ||
| 3298acb | Miguel tries to look jokey-penitent, but misses and looks like a man in white jeans who underestimates a spot of flatulence. | David Mitchell | ||
| 0bfe78b | Remember that a sincere apology never diminishes the apologizer. | David Mitchell | ||
| bc9f89e | But it's not time that matters. It felt ... like a secret place just us two knew about. | David Mitchell | ||
| 7d00e28 | The minutes jog up the down escalator. | david mitchell | ||
| a5421d4 | Dawn Madden's got cruel eyes like a Chinese empress and sometimes one glimpse at school makes me think about her all day. | David Mitchell | ||
| bada134 | The second tunnel's a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth's in Great Malvern...When the four-minute warning goes off, the Ministry of Defence lot at the RSRE'll be ferried up to Woolies by the military police. Councillors from Malvern Council'll be allowed in, so will Woolworth's manager and assistant manager. Then the military police...They'll grab one or two of the.. | David Mitchell | ||
| c77c5b2 | Her oil-black hair's sort of punky. She must use gel. I'd love to gel her gel in for her. | David Mitchell | ||
| a48ba9f | Orito pictures the human mind that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9e6453b | A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. Girls are the same, too, perhaps, in the morning. | David Mitchell | ||
| 2d4b04c | Now smoking really is an expression of the rebel spirit--it's virtually sodding illegal! Yet what are we without our addictions? Insipid. Flavorless. Careerless! | David Mitchell | ||
| 2f1b6e6 | To have relied on a man to stay alive is a bond closer than blood. | David Mitchell | ||
| a2e7b3d | My in-ear Babelfish provides synopses of the passages rather than a running translation, but now and then the interpreter confesses, "I'm sorry, but I have no idea what he just said. I'm not sure the author knew, either." | David Mitchell | ||
| dac85e1 | To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom | David Mitchell | ||
| 2b39cee | Holly slides off the chairlift like a gymnast, and I slide off like a sack of hammers. | David Mitchell | ||
| bee4430 | Earlier, I stepped on a squid that had propelled itself over the bulwarks! (Its eyes & beak reminded me of my father-in-law.) | David Mitchell | ||
| 51c2119 | think of Big Mac's aphorism: In order to have sex, women need to feel loved; but in order for men to feel loved, we need to have sex. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6b1f1ac | Psychological complexity, character development, the killer line to end a scene, villains blotched with virtue, heroic characters speckled with villainy, foreshadow and backflash, artful misdirection. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9d2600c | Letting it go feels so sodding liberating. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1d5a6db | A salaam aleikum." The elderly Irishwoman has a foamy cloud of white hair and a zigzag cashmere poncho. You wouldn't cross her." | David Mitchell | ||
| dbbd7de | I light up, fumigate my alveolar sacs and think dark thoughts | David Mitchell | ||
| f059216 | Boundaries between noise and sound are conventions, I see now. All boundaries are conventions, national ones too. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so. | David Mitchell | ||
| b5105cc | This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves. | love | David Mitchell | |
| 4f77862 | If you've not been through it, you can't understand, not really. Lucky you, I say. Control is about fear, see. If you're afraid enough of the reprisals, you don't say no, you don't fight back, you don't run away. Saying yes is how you survive. It becomes normal. Horrible, but normal. Horrible, because it's normal. Now, lucky you can say, 'Not standing up to him is giving him permission,' but if you've been fed this diet since the year dot, .. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9ae4670 | Still dark. The Alpine hush is miles deep. The skylight over Holly's bed is covered with snow, but now that the blizzard's stopped I'm guessing the stars are out. I'd like to buy her a telescope. Could I send her one? From where? My body's aching and floaty but my mind's flicking through the last night and day, like a record collector flicking through a file of LPs. On the clock radio, a ghostly presenter named Antoine Tanguay is working th.. | romance | David Mitchell | |
| 4303cfb | vets' fees. And the fifth curse is the kicker: the dread that you'll be the one who loses it all. | David Mitchell | ||
| 0369e87 | After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolong a dying race's agonies for ten or twenty years. The merciful plowman shoots a trusty horse grown too old for service. As philanthropists, might it not be our duty to likewise ameliorate the savages' sufferings by hastening their extinction? Think of your Red Indians, Adam, think on the treaties you Americans abrogate & renege on, time & ti.. | genocide indigenous-peoples justification justifying-genocide justifying-murder missionaries oppressors racism | David Mitchell | |
| fe9745f | I wish all this never had to change," says Rafiq, unexpectedly. I'm pleased he's content and sad that a kid so young knows that nothing lasts." | transience | David Mitchell | |
| ebeb924 | Maailma ei lakkaa purkamasta sita minka on rakentanut. Miksi maailmassa pitaisi olla jarkea? | David Mitchell | ||
| a7f2688 | People buy such bollocks at museums. They don't know what else to do once they're there. | gift-stores museums stores | David Mitchell | |
| 2e87278 | I wonder what love feels like on the inside because externally it turns you into the King of Tit Mountain. | David Mitchell | ||
| f052f4f | If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth & claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass. I am not deceived. It is the hardest of worlds to make real. Tortuous advances won over generations can be lost by.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 37d72e3 | Blame its user, blame its maker, but don't blame the gun. | David Mitchell | ||
| 4baacd4 | Mum said I'd learn betrayals came in various shapes and sizes, but to betray someone's dream is the unforgivable one. | David Mitchell |