The Mirror World of Melody Black Quotes

“It was a uniquely human problem, something no other animal had to put up with, this ability to suffer in multiple tenses – simultaneously to mourn the past, despair of the present and fear the future.”
― Gavin Extence, The Mirror World of Melody Black

“People talk about dark moods, black moods, all the time. But depression isn’t a dark mood. It’s an ash-grey mood, or possibly some type of beige. There”
― Gavin Extence, The Mirror World of Melody Black

“You can't make anyone happy, just like no one else can make you happy. Because real happiness doesn't work like that. You have to learn to be happy on your own. Then you can start worrying about being happy with somebody else.”
― Gavin Extence, The Mirror World of Melody Black

“I love my mum, and I'm very grateful to my mum; she dropped everything and came to rescue me when I needed her. However, nothing tells you that your life's gone off track like waking up in a parent's spare bedroom with only a bag of crumpled clothes for company.”
― Gavin Extence, The Mirror World of Melody Black

“The more I thought about Jocelyn's theory, the less bizarre it seemed. Yes, there were things about it that were absolutely cuckoo - Mrs Chang's Mexican double and so forth - but still, overall the idea was not without its merits. It made a strange sort of sense to me, on an intuitive, metaphorical level. Being in here - going crazy - it did feel like your life had been hijacked in some inexplicable way. It did feel like a parallel universe, separated from the real one by only the flimsiest of partitions.”
― Gavin Extence, The Mirror World of Melody Black