Ghost stories Quote by David Mitchell

“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

“I envied my uncritical, unthinking sisters.”

— David Mitchell

“... 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

“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.”

— David Mitchell

Your environment affects you wherever you are.

— David Mitchell

“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

“Loyalty looks simple... but it ain't.”

— David Mitchell

“Only the trombonist played on. That's trombonists for you.”

— David Mitchell

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

— David Mitchell

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

— David Mitchell

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

— David Mitchell

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