“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Reality is the page. Life is the word.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“How do you smuggle daydreams into reality?”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Yet 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 Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“The body is the outermost layer of the mind.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“During those nine pouched-up months, what do babies imagine? Gills, swamps, battlefields? To people in wombs, what is imagined and what is real must be one and the same.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“You look for your meaning. You find it, and at that moment, your meaning changes, and you have to start all over again.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“It was only a wasp,’ I say, ‘there are plenty more where they came from.’ This is not good enough for Tomomi: ‘There are plenty more humans where we come from, so does that make homicide okay?”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Life is sheer bliss when it wants to be.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-twin Venice with all the water drained away.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“I feel sad that I found what I searched for, but no longer want what I found.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Do soldiers feel this, when they get back from a war? The utter weirdness of utter normality.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Mrs.Comb tightened her headscarf and wondered why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most. She could not understand it. She could not begin to understand.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Cats seem too transdimensional to get hit by traffic, but it happens all the time.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness. The "Two spirits dancing so strange" in "#9dream" bless you with harmony. But people prefer loneliness to harmony.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
David Mitchell
Born place: in Southport, The United Kingdom
Born date January 12, 1969
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“There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from Many Waters
“her all the way to the crossroads, and I think it more than adequate.” Everyone gaped at her like she was mad. “Our goal,” she continued, “was to distract the king, was it not? To distract the king and those who serve him, to send them on a merry chase. It would have been nice to meet the lady, and to use her captivity to our advantage, but our first intention was to empty the tombs of its guards, yes?” Immerez calmed and nodded, and Sarge let out a breath of relief. Karigan’s own thoughts were awhirl. They kidnapped Estora just to distract the king? To empty the tombs? What were they up to? “Who are you?” she asked the woman. The woman did not answer, but withdrew a pendant from beneath her chemise. It was crudely made of iron, but shaped into a design Karigan knew well: a dead tree. “Second Empire,” she whispered. She glanced at the onlookers. “You’re all Second Empire?” Some drew out pendants like the woman’s, and others raised their hands, palms outward, to show the tattoo of the dead tree. The old woman smiled kindly”
― Kristen Britain, quote from The High King's Tomb
“Change isn't as easy as snapping your finger."
"And for everyone it's different. If we all learned the lesson the first time around the track, there'd be no need for a stadium, for coaches, for cheerleaders, for those people who maintain the field so we can pick ourselves up and try again.”
― Jennifer Laurens, quote from Heavenly
“Parked in the school lot, I grab their two backpacks, which I swear weigh more than they do, get out, and open the back door like a chauffeur. Who am I kidding? Not like a chauffeur. I am a chauffeur. No one moves.”
― Lisa Genova, quote from Left Neglected
“—Dímelo otra vez —pidió, insaciable.
—¿Qué? —lo provocó.
—Ya sabes qué. Dímelo.
—Te amo.
—Otra vez. Tengo que oírlo una vez más.
—Te amo.
—¿No te cansarás nunca de que te pida que me lo digas?
—No tendrás que pedírmelo.
—Ni tú a mí. Te amo.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from Morning Glory
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