Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks. — David Mitchell Bad mood Copy Share Image
“I Din't finish speakin' my cure 'cos Roses schnockoed my face so hard the ground dived forward an' I crashed my jaxy.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Dawn Madden’s got cruel eyes like a Chinese empress and sometimes one glimpse at school makes me think about her all day.” — David Mitchell Dawn Copy Share Image
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye. — David Mitchell Autumn Copy Share Image
“Self pity, Orito reminds herself yet again, is a noose dangling from a rafter.” — David Mitchell Pity Copy Share Image
“Hatchets don’t work on ghosts. They cannot hear you. You only end up hatcheting yourself. Believe me. I know of what I… — David Mitchell Ghost Copy Share Image
“ Act , implores the Ghost of Future Regret. I shan't give you another chance. ” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the… — David Mitchell Beach Copy Share Image
“Green is made of yellow and blue, nothing else, but when you look at green, where’ve the yellow and the blue gone?… — David Mitchell Blue Copy Share Image
...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half… — David Mitchell Balance Copy Share Image
“When pain is vivid, when decisions are keen-edged, we believe that we are the surgeons. But time passes, and one sees the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But… — David Mitchell Asian Copy Share Image
“Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance… — David Mitchell Tokyo Copy Share Image
“We cut a pack of cards called historical context- our generation, Sixsmith, cut tens, jacks and queens. Adrian's cut threes, fours, and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“The night in question, I had put aside my perpetual lavatory read, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , because… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“Answering the question 'How would you like to smell?' by saying 'I'd rather I didn't' is also no longer acceptable. It's not… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Two old people in a room devoid of furniture, steam rising from their teacups. They were motionless and expressionless. Waiting for something.… — David Mitchell Old people Copy Share Image
“It was a morning for Ella Fitzgerald. There are fine things in the world, after all. Dignity, refinement, warmth and humour, where… — David Mitchell Falling in love Copy Share Image
“Yet for the first time in three days, I want something. I want the forest lord to turn me into a cedar.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit… — David Mitchell Being human Copy Share Image
“But 'luckily,' the train before mine was so late that it still hadn't departed, All the seats were taken, and I had… — David Mitchell Fitness Copy Share Image
“A Muzak version of “Imagine” comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.” — David Mitchell Imagination Copy Share Image
“Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.” — David Mitchell Betrayal Copy Share Image
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell Diplomacy Copy Share Image
“A man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my heart.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“The organs of Venus are familiar to all, but oh, my brothers, the organ of Saturn is the bladder.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body? — David Mitchell Body Copy Share Image
“Men marry women hoping they’ll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.” — David Mitchell Marriage Copy Share Image
“come now, what's a reviewer?" I reasoned. "One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely...” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.” — David Mitchell Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
“Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can. — David Mitchell Bears Copy Share Image
“London darkens the map like England's bowel polyp. There is a whole country up here.” — David Mitchell England Copy Share Image
“You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters. That's not quite the same as wishing to be one” — David Mitchell Sister Copy Share Image
“The world has long forgotten, but we mountain-dwellers live in the prayer wheel of time.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The dumbest dog can sit and watch. What takes brains is knowing when to look away.” — David Mitchell Animal Copy Share Image
Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility. — David Mitchell Credibility Copy Share Image
