Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image ““flamelight danced with shadows round them unloved walls.”” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The walls flickered in the candlelight. The room felt close and warm, like an underground sanctuary.” — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“...the shadows thrown by a single candle flame often can be more frightening that total darkness.” — Neil Abramson Copy Share Image
“I don't see the fire, I see colours. Beautiful colours dancing in the dark, waiting to torch the souls of many, charming them with… — Arti Manani Copy Share Image
“As an open fire in a dark room throws romance and pathos into the quiet faces at its edge, so she cast her lights… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He looked at the daylight shadows of a yellow hue, dancing with the firelight shadows in blue on the whitewashed chimney corner, but there… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Her light was so brilliant it burned my guilty shadow onto the floor, but I was not blinded.” — Michael Hibbard Copy Share Image
“A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The flame that gives the greatest light also casts the longest shadow.” — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
“Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.” — J.E.B. Spredemann 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
