David Mitchell, Black Swan Green Quotes
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.
...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!
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.
Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.
Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.
Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.
