Mitchell Quotes

“I only know that I love you.
That's your misfortune.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“When pain is vivid, when decisions are keen-edged,
we believe that we are the surgeons.

But time passes, and one sees the whole more clearly,
and now I perceive us as surgical instruments used by the world.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“She could live her life alone if need be, but what did it prove? That she was self-sufficient, independent, strong, and able. She knew those things, had been those things—and would always be those things.

And she could be courageous, too.

Didn’t it take courage, wasn’t it harder to blend one life with another, to share and to cope, to compromise than to live that life alone? It was work to live with a man, to wake up every day prepared to deal with routine, and to be open to surprises.

She’d never shied away from work.

Marriage was a different kettle at this stage of life. There would be no babies made between them. But they could share grandchildren one day. They wouldn’t grow up together, but could grow old together.

They could be happy.”
― Nora Roberts, Black Rose

“Art isn’t really about raw unmediated access to reality: that’s reality. You can get that at the bus station. Art is about interpreting reality, painting up certain aspects of, focusing alteration. Etching.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear