My Choicest Lines from the Slade House by David Mitchell

David Mitchell spins an engrossing tale in his latest book Slade House, sequel to The Bone Clocks. The war between the Shaded Way and The Horologists continues, spread across different stories starting from 1979 & culminating to 2015.

Here are a few of David Mitchell’s finest lines from the book –

• Do you ever think you might be a different species of human knitted out of raw DNA in a laboratory like in The Island of Doctor Moreau, and then turned loose to see if you can pass yourself off as normal or not?
• I feel like I’m plunging upwards. What did I do to deserve this?…What does deserve have to do with anything?…Did the pig whose smoked flesh you ate at breakfast deserved her fate? The questions irrelevant. You desired bacon and she couldn’t escape the abattoir. We desire your soul to power our operandi and you can’t escape our lacuna. That’s it.
• Easier to fix a bad credit rating than a bad credibility rating

Grief is an amputation, but hope is an incurable haemophilia.