Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image ““Listening to houses breathe makes you feel weightless.”” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Listening to the magnified sound of my own breath is peaceful and strangely euphoric. I'm being reassured with every breath that I'm more than… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Live's not the breathes you take, but the moments that take your breath away.” — George Strait Copy Share Image
“An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
“Every day I get up, tired from not sleeping, and I go to work and do what I do. Late at night I come… — Kate McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The house was full of murmuring voices. I could practically feel each room getting choked with the hot breath of other people.” — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“Mindful breathing is the vehicle that you use to go back to your true home.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“The sky is grey, the air hot. I walk back across the mown lawn loving the smell and the houses so completely it leaves… — Linda Gregg 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 Malvern...When the four-minute warning goes off, the Ministry of Defence lot at the RSRE’ll be ferried up to Woolies by the military police. Councillors from Malvern Council’ll be allowed in, so will Woolworth’s manager and assistant… — David Mitchell Copy Share
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 floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are… — David Mitchell Copy Share