David Mitchell

I__ not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga__ __oker Face__

Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't.

One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.

The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were unable to open. I listed the places where I hurt, and how much. My loins felt ripped. Something inside had torn. There were seven places on my body where he had sunk his fangs into my skin and bitten. He'd dug his nails into my neck, and twisted my head to one side, and clawed my face. I hadn't made a noise. He had made all the noise for both of us. Had it hurt him?

Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat.

Trees're always a relief, after people.

Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules; only outcomes.What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts.What precipitates acts? B

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror."I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves.Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.

The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, itturns ever more perfect. And when it__ perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits theground it gets all mushed up. So it__ only absolutely perfect when it__ falling through the air,this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all

There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!

Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with!

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. "I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?