Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?
David MitchellTime is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
David MitchellThere are so many cities in every single city.
David MitchellTwo old people in a room devoid of furniture, steam rising from their teacups. They were motionless and expressionless. Waiting for something. I wish I could go into their room and sit down with them. I'd give them my Rolex for that. I wish they would smile, and pour me a cup of jasmine tea. I wish the world was like that.
David MitchellYet for the first time in three days, I want something. I want the forest lord to turn me into a cedar. The very oldest islanders say that if you are in the interior mountains on the night when the forest lord counts his trees, he includes you in the number and turns you into a tree.
David MitchellLa risa es una blasfemia anárquica. Los tiranos hacen bien en temerla.
David MitchellDentro de todo secreto acecha el miedo a descubrirlo.
David MitchellHow could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?
David MitchellOur lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
David Mitchellwhy human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
David MitchellMots clés truth-beauty-distruction
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