Slade House
David Mitchell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.”
“People are masks, with masks under those masks, and masks under those, and down you go.”
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.”
“Mrs. Todds my English teacher gives an automatic F if anyone ever writes "I woke up and it was all a dream" at the end of a story. She says it violates the deal between reader and writer, that it's a cop-out, it's the Boy Who Cried Wolf. But every single morning we really do wake up and it really was all a dream.”
“Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don’t you find?”
“If you don't fit into the system, the system makes life hell.”
“Do you ever think you might be a different species of human, knitted out of raw DNA in a laboratory like in The Island of Doctor Moreau, and then turned loose to see if you can pass yourself off as normal or not?”
“Bitch’ is a stingless insult these days—it hurts like, I don’t know, a celery-stabbing.”
“Time needs time to be measurable.”
“Finally, I've reached the grandfather clock. Its face has no hands, only the words TIME IS, TIME WAS, TIME IS NOT. Highly metaphysical; deeply useless.”
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