“ Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. David Mitchell
“ But it’s not time that matters. It felt … like a secret place just us two knew about. David Mitchell
“ 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
“ If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is. David Mitchell
“ [...] Senecas Warnung an Nero: Ganz gleich, wie viele von uns du tötest, dein Nachfolger wird nicht darunter sein David Mitchell
“ Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality David Mitchell
“ The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. The second law of survival states that there is n… David Mitchell
“ That’s my problem with new-age stuff. In common with many irrational views it harks back to a sense of something ancient while rejecting anything provably historical. It’s like the miserable concept o… David Mitchell
