Mitch Cullin > Quotes

“You know, I never did call him Watson – he was John, simply John.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“Actually, it is amazing how much can be learned about people from the books they own.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“Something has gone amiss with the world, he found himself thinking. Something has changed in the marrow, and I’m at a loss to make sense of it.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“On my first evening in the back country, I skipped down the porch steps of the farmhouse-leaving my father inside and the radio playing and my small suitcase decorated with neon flower stickers unpacked-and wandered towards the upside-down school bus I'd spied from an upstairs window.”
― Mitch Cullin, Tideland

“So what is the truth?” Mr Umezaki had once asked him. “How do you arrive at it? How do you unravel the meaning of something that doesn’t want to be known?”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“If everything is really meaningless―then we should create the meaning for ourselves.”
― Mitch Cullin, From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest

“Ultimately, Roger learned only of the encounter with the urban bees. The boy remained thoroughly fascinated by what he heard nonetheless, his blue-eyed stare never once straying from Holmes; his visage passive and accepting, his eyes wide, Roger's pupils stated fixed on those venerable, reflective eyes, as though the boy were seeing distant lights shimmering along an opaque horizon, a glimpse of something flickering and alive existing beyond his reach. And, in turn, the gray eyes that focused sharply on him - piercing and kind at the same instant - endeavoured to bridge the lifetime that separated the two of them, attempting to do so as brandy was sipped, and the vial's glass grew warmer against soft palms, and that seasoned, well-lived voice somehow made Roger feel much older and more worldly than his years.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“zaraz potem w różnych miejscach pastwiska pojawiły się drobne, jasne rozbłyski, cytrynowe punkciki. nadleciały robaczki świętojańskie, tak jak obiecywał ojciec. obserwowałam je z otwartymi ustami, nerwowo wycierając dłonie o sukienkę. miałam ochotę wybiec z autobusu, żeby się z nimi przywitać, tymczasem to one dołączyły do mnie. gromady maleńkich światełek wlatywały przez wybite okna i ożywiały ponure wnętrze wraku...”
― Mitch Cullin

“Exceptional children are often the product of unremarkable parents.

-Mr.Holmes”
― Mitch Cullin, Sherlock Holmes: Misteri Yang Tak Terpecahkan

“What would she know about God anyway? The personification of her God, Holmes figured, was surely the popular one: a wrinkled old man sitting omnisciently upon a throne of gold, reigning over creation from within puffy clouds, speaking both graciously and commandingly at the same instant. Her God, no doubt, wore a flowing beard. For Holmes, it was amusing to think that Mrs. Munro's Creator probably looked somewhat like himself- except her God existed as a figment of imagination, and he did not (at least not entirely, he reasoned).”
― Mitch Cullin

“Para conocerte a ti mismo, que es lo mismo que comprender el mundo entero, no necesitas buscar más allá de las lindes de tu propia vida: el florido prado, los bosques inexplorados.”
― Mitch Cullin, Sherlock Holmes: Misteri Yang Tak Terpecahkan

“Not through the dogmas of archaic doctrines will you gain your greatest understandings, but, rather, through the continued evolution of science, and through your keen observations of the natural environment beyond your windows. To comprehend yourself truly, which is also to comprehend the world truly, you needn't look any farther than at what abounds with life around you—the blossoming meadow, the untrodden woodlands. Without this as mankind's overriding objective, I don't foresee an age of actual enlightenment ever arriving.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“Let us remove God from the equation, shall we?”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“And even now I wonder if creation is both too beautiful and too horrible for a handful of perceptive souls, and if the realisation of this opposing duality can offer them few options but to take leave of their own accord.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“To comprehend yourself truly, which is also to comprehend the world truly, you needn’t look any farther than at what abounds with life around you – the blossoming meadow, the untrodden woodlands. Without this as mankind’s overriding objective, I don’t foresee an age of actual enlightenment ever arriving.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“Without being too blunt – you are a bachelor who lived with another bachelor for many years.”
“Purely platonic, I assure you.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“I am afraid I never wore a deerstalker, or smoked the big pipe – mere embellishments by an illustrator, intended to give me distinction, I suppose, and sell magazines. I didn’t get much say in the matter.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“Nunca senti um vazio tão incompreensível dentro de mim, e só então, enquanto meu corpo se erguia do banco, comecei a entender quão absolutamente sozinho eu estava no mundo.”
― Mitch Cullin, Sr. Holmes

“É como se ela tivesse nascido para sentir e experimentar o mundo de forma mais intensa do que todos nós.”
― Mitch Cullin

“Quando finalmente voltou a olhar para cima, vi a débil expressão de alguém que se sentia derrotada por todos, e que concordaria com qualquer coisa, independentemente de seus verdadeiros sentimentos.”
― Mitch Cullin, Sr. Holmes

“Is that true? Are you really him?”
“I am afraid I still hold that distinction.”
“You are Sherlock Holmes? No, I don’t believe it.”
“That is quite all right. I scarcely believe it myself.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“I don't deserve this life―I'm better of dead, I'm sorry.”
― Mitch Cullin, From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest

“A morte, assim como o crime, é lugar-comum. (...)Por outro lado, a lógica é rara. Portanto, manter uma atitude mental lógica, especialmente quando enfrentamos a mortalidade, pode ser difícil. No entanto, é sempre na lógica, e não na morte, que devemos nos pautar.”
― Mitch Cullin, Sr. Holmes

“Lastly, it should be noted that the nostalgia which the reading public maintains for my former Baker Street address does not exist in me. I no longer crave the bustle of London streets, nor do I miss navigating the tangled mires created by the criminally disposed.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“Seguirei adiante sozinho, de modo que você possa me procurar por lá.”
― Mitch Cullin, Sr. Holmes

“Without being too blunt—you are a bachelor who lived with another bachelor for many years.” “Purely platonic, I assure you.” “If you say so.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“How amazing it was, Holmes mentioned, that such a powerful substance, the chemistry of which was still not completely known, could be produced by the pharyngeal glands of the worker bee –creating queens from ordinary bee larvae, healing a multitude of mankind’s ills.”
― Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind

“Você deve ser forte, desejei convencê-lo. Deve pensar mais como eu. Ela é real, sim, mas também é uma invenção, um desejo derivado de sua própria necessidade. Em sua solidão, você se apegou ao primeiro rosto que chamou sua atenção. Poderia ter sido qualquer uma, você sabe. Afinal, é um homem, meu caro. Ela é apenas uma mulher e existem milhares iguais espalhadas por esta grande cidade.”
― Mitch Cullin, Sr. Holmes

“Mas tudo parecia tão remoto, tão abstrato e estranho para ele. Quanto mais olhava para o mar e para o céu, mais afastado se sentia da humanidade.”
― Mitch Cullin, Sr. Holmes

“O passado esquecido às vezes me surpreende com impressões inesperadas, momentos dos quais mal me lembrava, até eles me revisitarem.”
― Mitch Cullin, Sr. Holmes