“ It’s not a girl’s glittering personality that men’re interested in, Holly. It never bloody is. David Mitchell
“ If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense… David Mitchell
“ I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Wo… David Mitchell
“ I understood that one's environment is a key to one's identity, but that my environment, Papa Song's, was a key I had lost. David Mitchell
“ I put ten sugar cubes in my coffee. I drank it through my tongue, and my blood sang like the Archangel Gabriel as the sugar flooded in. That can't be natural David Mitchell
“ He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune. David Mitchell
“ Funny, thinks Milton. Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible. David Mitchell
“ Five years later, I take a deep, shuddery breath to stop myself crying. It’s not just that I can’t hold Aoife again, it’s everything: It’s grief for the regions we deadlanded, the ice caps we melted,… David Mitchell
“ Finally, I've reached the grandfather clock. Its face has no hands, only the words TIME IS, TIME WAS, TIME IS NOT. Highly metaphysical; deeply useless. David Mitchell
“ Do we use the L-word because we mean it, or because we want to kid ourselves into thinking we’re still in that blissful state? David Mitchell
“ Controls 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 norma… David Mitchell
“ Commuters sway like sides of beef and slump like corpses: red-eyed office slaves plugged into Discmans; their podgier selves in their forties buried in the Evening Standard; and nearly retired version… David Mitchell
