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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6b1bfd2 | Grief's a bastard, it really is--pardon my French. It makes everything else harder. | David Mitchell | ||
| 21b0d50 | Fuck you, said Fear to Reason. | David Mitchell | ||
| 2dfd6bd | If people praise you, you're not walking your own path. | David Mitchell | ||
| be38aad | Hershey is so bent on avoiding cliche that each sentence is as tortured as an American whistleblower. | writing | David Mitchell | |
| 945e4c6 | Us f'gotten slaves was bein' drained by hunger'n'pain an' the mozzies from the slopin' pond now an' we was envyin' that Hawi boy diresome, till at a nod from Lyons they ripped down Elfy's pants an' held him an' busted that boy's ring, oilin' his hole up with lardbird fat b'tween turns. | David Mitchell | ||
| 68d6d16 | Lavender's my favorite scent, after White-Out and bacon rind. I sat down on the steps, not sure where to go next. A July afternoon yawned. Mirage puddles'd shimmered on the Welland road as I rode here. I could've gone to sleep on the baked doorstep. Little naked ants. | David Mitchell | ||
| 2e46b83 | Still. Mariangela says that the best way to work with dementia is to act as if the person you knew is still inside the wreckage. If you're wrong, and the person you knew is gone, then no damage is done but the standards of care stay high; if you're right, and the person you knew is still bricked up inside, then you are the lifeline. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1cc40bd | Other boys mean questions have to get settled. Who's coolest? Who's hardest? Who's brainiest? Normal boys care about this stuff | David Mitchell | ||
| 29c9667 | What is marriage, exactly, and how could we explain it to an alien anthropologist? It's more than just a living arrangement. Is it an endeavor, a pledge, a symbol, or an affirmation? Is it a span of shared years and shared experiences? A vessel for intimacy? Or does the old joke nail it best? 'If love is an enchanted dream, then marriage is an alarm clock.' " Mostly male laughter in the congregation is shushed. "Maybe marriage is difficult .. | David Mitchell | ||
| d439676 | tho' law an' Civ'lize ain't always the same, nay, see Kona got Kona law but they ain't got one flea o' Civ'lize. | David Mitchell | ||
| 30b57f9 | His skin's so tanned he could be Turkish or something | turkish | David Mitchell | |
| 9b1d4db | Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The mad tend to crave it, many of the sane crave it, but the wise worry about its long-term side effects. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8818933 | in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights," the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful." | David Mitchell | ||
| c9f3e22 | war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1204a5e | If you don't want the fish, why do you catch them?" A few seconds pass. "For the quality of the conversation." | David Mitchell | ||
| bf93204 | Come, Adam, a wise man does not step betwixt the beast & his meat. | David Mitchell | ||
| d4b91c4 | Aoife, in her dreams, makes a noise like a friendless harmonica. | David Mitchell | ||
| c6350a9 | My landlord is eating a blueberry-blooded Popsicle. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9fa0955 | Mrs. Todds my English teacher gives an automatic F if anyone ever writes "I woke up and it was all a dream" at the end of a story. She says it violates the deal between reader and writer, that it's a cop-out, it's the Boy Who Cried Wolf." | David Mitchell | ||
| ca1929f | Aroma of fresh bread led me to a bakery where a deformed woman with no nose sold me a dozen crescent-moon pastries. Only wanted one, but thought she had enough problems. | David Mitchell | ||
| bf91f37 | Dappled sunshine shivers. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1561f34 | At odd moments she may fret over a blank in her memory, but soon a Pied Piper thought will come dancing along and her untrained mind will follow... | David Mitchell | ||
| b5a6be3 | Air in the chateau clammy like laundry that won't dry. Door-banging drafts down the passageways. Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying good-bye. | David Mitchell | ||
| ed3d623 | I can't make any promises... I became a scientist because...it's ike panning for gold in a muddy torrent. Truth is the gold. I- I don't know what I want to do...' 'Journalists work in torrents just as muddy.' The moon is over the water. 'Do...whatever you can't not do. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3f7c493 | Leave Ueno Station through the park entrance, go past the concert hall and museums, skirt around the fountain, and you come to a sort of tree garden. Homeless people live here, in tents made of sky-blue plastic sheeting and wooden poles. The best tents even have doors. | David Mitchell | ||
| e5d2602 | Nowadays not even the villains smoke. Now smoking really is an expression of the rebel spirit--it's virtually sodding illegal! Yet what are we without our addictions? Insipid. Flavorless. | David Mitchell | ||
| 30b9f3b | The Dusk follows you as you go through it. If it touches you, you cease to exist, so one wrong turn down a dead end, that's the end of you. That's why you have to learn the labyrinth by heart. | David Mitchell | ||
| 626406c | Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, according to Veronica, its victory is assured. | David Mitchell | ||
| 75cd394 | Holly rubs her temples. "Are we talking ... vampires?" Arkady groans. "On, the V-word! Here it comes again." | David Mitchell | ||
| a69411a | The colorblind get by just fine not knowing blue from purple. | David Mitchell | ||
| 0ab834e | and she looks like a girl unwrapping an expensive present she knew she was getting. I | David Mitchell | ||
| d1c6c8c | Only one-tenth of what you write will make it into your manuscript, but when you knock on that tenth" - I rap my knuckles on the table - "you'll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue." | writing | David Mitchell | |
| 00b8be7 | God only knows how many previous owners it's had, but it's been washed so the stains aren't sticky at least, | David Mitchell | ||
| 450f519 | Are you mad?" Always a trickier question than it looks." | David Mitchell | ||
| fd73d02 | Prescient woman called Meronym visited my dwellin' for a spell, an' nothin'd be the same, not in my life, not in the Valleys, nay, not never. | David Mitchell | ||
| 7a5d71c | magic is merely normality that you're not yet used to. | David Mitchell | ||
| d9d2fe0 | So you're a sort of archivist for the future, | David Mitchell | ||
| 908d659 | Bad things happen to realists. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8e60c19 | On bad days you wonder, 'Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife? | metalife war wonder | David Mitchell | |
| 2a4f2ae | I consider how you don't get to choose whom you're attracted to, you only get to wonder about it, retrospectively. Racial differences I've always found to have an aphrodisiac effect on me, but class difference is sexuality's Berlin Wall. | David Mitchell | ||
| 08ff900 | just say, "It happened, but it's over," and get on with the ordinary stuff of family and life." | David Mitchell | ||
| b16650b | Fatalism's a weak antidepressant, but there's nothing stronger at Dr. Kumar's. | David Mitchell | ||
| 7eab2eb | So you're reinstating the law of the jungle?" asks Mo. "You were bringing it back, every time you filled your tank." | David Mitchell | ||
| 1e60db6 | A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat | David Mitchell |