Knowledge is a mirror, and for the first time in my life, I was allowed to see who I am.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Knowledge is a mirror, and for the first time in my life, I was allowed to see who I am.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can heal, too.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
We are the choices we make.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Love is watching someone die.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
There ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Grief, she thought, is like a substance of the world. It will never run out.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Power is trickier to use than to obtain.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet