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  1. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven
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  2. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    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. I'd been on the local news and everything. Everyone was angry, but I was only following orders.
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  3. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly.
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  4. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    Mrs. Todds my English teacher gives an automatic F if anyone ever writes "I woke up and it was all a dream" at the end of a story. She says it violates the deal between reader and writer, that it's a cop-out, it's the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
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  5. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    Other boys mean questions have to get settled. Who's coolest? Who's hardest? Who's brainiest? Normal boys care about this stuff
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  6. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    Grief's a bastard, it really is-pardon my French. It makes everything else harder.
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  7. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.
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  8. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    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.
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  9. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    She didn't tell me to use a condom, so I didn't: a bit of a risk, but it's her risk, not mine,
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  10. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    When you die, your soul crosses the Dusk between life and the Blank Sea. The journey takes forty-nine days,
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  11. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    Her professional conscience is a collar. I hold the leash.
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  12. David Mitchell _ Slade House

    Places change you, Miss Timms, and deserts change us pale northerners so much, our own mothers wouldn't recognize us.
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