David Mitchell (author) quote: Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

~ David Mitchell (author) ~

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Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

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