“ But it wasn't us, personally, who trashed the world, says Mo. It was the system. We couldn't change it. Then it's not us, personally, taking your panels, says Hood. It's the system. We can't change it… David Mitchell
“ Ayrs let long moments fall away. ‘You’re young, Frobisher, you’re rich, you’ve got a brain, and by all accounts you’re not wholly repugnant. I’m not sure why you stay on here.’……Couldn’t say if Ayrs f… David Mitchell
“ Another war is always coming, Robert. They are never properly extinguished. What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual v… David Mitchell
“ Another example of their hatefulness while my dander’s up: in order to get themselves off the hook of sometimes liking uncool things, they refer to them as ‘guilty pleasures’, which is a ridiculous ex… David Mitchell
“ An Anchorite was a girl who lived like a hermit in a cell, but in the wall of a church. A living human sacrifice, in a way. David Mitchell
“ Ambassadors are idiots who possess only one skill: outkowtowing one another at official functions. David Mitchell
“ A wrongheaded world, sighed Shiloh Davydov, where women needs must deny their gender for fear that their ideas will be dismissed. David Mitchell
“ 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
“ A no-name place, as far as I could see, but it had a miserable cafe-cum-garage-cum-funeral parlor shared by a gang of silent locals and many flies who wheeled through the air like drugged angels of de… David Mitchell
“ A classical LP was playing...... Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal.But if the right words existed the music wouldn't need to. David Mitchell
“ 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
“ A bird hopped onto the foaming lilac outside. Its throat quivered; notes rose and fell out. As long as it kept singing and I kept staring, I told myself, I wouldn't start crying. David Mitchell
“ Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five percent of top-flight systems explorers are… David Mitchell
“ È un ciclo antico come il tribalismo. In principio, c'è l'ignoranza. L'ignoranza genera paura. La paura genera odio, e l'odio genera violenza. La violenza crea altra violenza, finché l'unica legge div… David Mitchell
“ Only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean! Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops? David Mitchell
“ Contemplating that, while the wealthy are no more likely to be born stupid than the poor, a wealthy upbringing compounds stupidity while a hardscrabble childhood dilutes it, if only for Darwinian reas… David Mitchell
“ You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at sight is a contradiction in terms. Unless in that first sight there's some sort of mystical gigabyte downloading of information… David Mitchell
