“there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The world has long forgotten, but we mountain-dwellers live in the prayer wheel of time.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She'n'her bros at the school'ry'd made a new game, Zachry'n'Meronym on Mauna Kia, but Abbess say-soed 'em not to 'cos times are… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“He lights another match to see if it's a time worth getting up for: 4:05. No. An inbetween hour.” — 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
“In the corridor outside, a trolley squeaks by. The brigadier I knew has left his bombed-out face, leaving me alone with the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“No wonder it's all such a fucking mess. I divided up my possible futures, put them into separate accounts, and now they're… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A time is one’s own, Eva, when oneself and one’s peers take the same things for granted, without thinking about it. Likewise,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“ Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true. ” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Even time is not immune to time. Once the only times that mattered were the rhythms of the planet and the body.… — 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
