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Slade House QUOTES

Slade House QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

3 " Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

4 " In March of 1915, all three of Lord and Lady Chetwynd-Pitt's sons'd been gassed, blown up or machine-gunned in the very same week at the battle of Neuve-Chapelle. All three. Imagine that: On Monday, you've got three sons, by Friday you've got none. Lady Albertina had just, y'know, caved in. Physically, mentally, spiritually, brutally. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

5 " A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

6 " All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

7 " Coffee’s the elixir of life. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

8 " There’s lying,” says Mum, fishing out the envelope she wrote the directions on from her handbag, “which is wrong, and there’s creating the right impression, which is necessary. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

9 " But the idea that you can no longer trust your mind, that’s just about the most frightening thing there is. When you mess around with proportion or symmetry, or when doubt is injected into your perception of the laws of physics, your mind ceases to be a refuge. Your mind is no longer a safe house. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

10 " In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

11 " People are masks, with masks under those masks, and masks under those, and down you go. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

12 " Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don’t you find? "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

13 " Bitch’ is a stingless insult these days—it hurts like, I don’t know, a celery-stabbing. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

14 " Time needs time to be measurable. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

15 " If you don't fit into the system, the system makes life hell. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

16 " I’m not in the Scouts any more,’ I remind her. Mr Moody our scoutmaster told me to get lost, so I did, and it took the Snowdonia mountain rescue service two days to find my shelter. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

17 " Finally, I've reached the grandfather clock. Its face has no hands, only the words TIME IS, TIME WAS, TIME IS NOT. Highly metaphysical; deeply useless. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

18 " What do you do when you're visiting someone's house and their garden starts vanishing? "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

19 " Tonight feels like a board game co-designed by M. C. Escher on a bender and Stephen King in a fever. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House

20 " Bitch" is a stingless insult these days - it hurts like, I don't know, a celery-stabbing. "

― David Mitchell , Slade House