“ Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metap… David Mitchell
“ While much of her true name lay beyond my knowledge of the Noongar language, as the minutes passed I understood that her name was also a history of her people, a sort of Bayeux Tapestry that bound myt… David Mitchell
“ What do you do when you're visiting someone's house and their garden starts vanishing? David Mitchell
“ We were, to quote the proverb, The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something... David Mitchell
“ We create models to explain nature, but the models wind up gatecrashing nature and driving away the original inhabitants. David Mitchell
“ Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy. David Mitchell
“ Tonight feels like a board game co-designed by M. C. Escher on a bender and Stephen King in a fever. David Mitchell
“ This is why the elite need a prophylactic barrier of shitty state schools, to prevent clever kids from working-class post codes ousting them from the Enclave of Privilege David Mitchell
“ This is peace, if you think about it--machine-gun nests being used as picnic tables. David Mitchell
“ Then the true true is diff’rent to the seemin’ true? said I. Yay, an’ it usually is, I mem’ry Meronym sayin’, an’ that’s why true true is presher’n’rarer’n diamonds. David Mitchell
“ The woman was sincere—bigots mostly are—but no less dangerous for that, and she shall be named and shamed. David Mitchell
“ The dissolution and sale of British Rail, transforming it into a disjointed network charging exorbitant prices for an unimproved and still taxpayer-subsidised service, darkened the joke a bit much for… David Mitchell
“ 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 know is gone, then no damage is done but the standards of care… David Mitchell
“ The Ghost-Girl's lips was fixed in a bitter smile, but her creamy eyes was sad so sad but proud'n'strong too. David Mitchell
“ Storytellers are not priests who commune with an ethereal realm but artisans, like dumpling makers, if somewhat slower. David Mitchell
“ So do not fritter away your days. Sooner than you fear, you will stand before a mirror in a care home, look at your body, and think, E.T., locked in a ruddy cupboard for a fortnight. David Mitchell
“ So I telled her my 'maginin's o' places from old books'n'pics in the school'ry. Lands where the Fall'd never falled, towns bigger'n all o' Big I. an' towers o' stars'n'suns blazin' higher'n Mauna Kea,… David Mitchell
“ People b'lief the world is built soan' tellin'em it ain't so caves the roof on their heads 'n'maybe yours. David Mitchell
