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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.
— David Mitchell Slade House
Tags: uncertainty, pain, loss, hope, grief

Other Quotes by "David Mitchell"

'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
— David Mitchell
Tags: up, about, make, mind
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
— David Mitchell
Tags: head, see, big, literature
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
— David Mitchell
Tags: better, you, personality, art
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
— David Mitchell
Tags: new, think, youth, world
When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.
— David Mitchell
Tags: your, yourself, you, life
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