“That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it? — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Summer has taken a sensuous turn: Ayrs’s wife and I are lovers. Don’t alarm yourself! Only in the carnal sense.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“ The belly craves food , she thinks, The tongue craves water, The heart craves love, and The mind craves stories. ” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection;… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I’d always worried but kissing’s not so tricky. Your lips know what to do, just like sea anenomes know what to do.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“But love’s not just the drug; it’s also the dealer. Love wants love in return, am I right, Olly? Like drugs, the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The world won’t leave things be. It’s always injecting endings into beginnings. Leaves tweezer themselves from these weeping willows. Leaves fall into… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Just as I was flung over the threshold, I embraced Grigoire the Swiss Fiancé in a rugger grip, determined that smug cockatoo… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Funny, thinks Milton. Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Do you know? He says. "I feel I've known you for years, not ninety minutes.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I could tell you a hundred things, thinks Jacob, and nothing at all.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Creation unfolds, around us, despite us and through us, at the speed of days and nights, and we like to call it… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Will I be some kid’s dad one day? Are any future people lurking deep inside mine?...Which girl’s carrying the other half of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She pulsed, invisibly, like a quasar. I can't describe women, but if you know Duke Pearson's 'After the rain', she was as… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Human beings,’ I inhale my wine’s nutmeggy steam, ‘are walking bundles of cravings. Cravings for food, water, shelter, warmth; sex and companionship;… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Finished in a frenzy that reminded me of our last night in Cambridge. Watched my final sunrise. Enjoyed a last cigarette. Didn’t… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
