Shiroyama’s heart stops. The earth’s pulse beats against his ear.
An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth …
… a black butterfly lands on the white stone, and unfolds its wings.

David Mitchell

Tags: life death



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I could tell you a hundred things, thinks Jacob, and nothing at all.

David Mitchell

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Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of meat; diseased, leathery meat, yes, but meat ready for the skewer

David Mitchell

Tags: life friendship murder death meat surgeon



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...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave

David Mitchell

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Marinus is leaning on the railing. "Warehouse number six needs rebuilding; there's a big hole in the seawall behind the guild; Constable Kosugi shall probably"--from Seawall Lane comes an almighty sigh and crash--"shall certainly be lodging elsewhere tonight, and I pissed my thigh from fear. Our glorious flag, as you see, is unhurt. Half of their shots flew over us"--the doctor looks landward--"and caused damage ashore. Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames.

David Mitchell


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Marinus blows out a mouthful of air. "Did close-range artillery knock any sense into you, or are we staying?

David Mitchell


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Glass

David Mitchell

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Ruddy hell, the cold smacked my face with an iron spade! Now I knew why northerners go in for beards, woad, and body grease.

David Mitchell


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By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

David Mitchell


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He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain

David Mitchell


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