Chynna Mershon

“The belly craves food, she thinks,
The tongue craves water,
The heart craves love, and
The mind craves stories.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn′t fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator...”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“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