Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me. — China Mieville Memories Copy Share Image
“I didn’t tell the story to ask for help because I knew there was no help.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Now the Ariekei were learning to speak, and to think, and it hurt.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.” — China Miéville Children Copy Share Image
“I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.” — China Miéville Librarian Copy Share Image
“Anxieties and controversies were now as clearly traceable through it as woodgrain through varnish.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations.” — China Miéville Beauty Copy Share Image
“There is the heat, which clots the air around her and stops up her pores and her eyes and ears” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last… — China Miéville Alone Copy Share Image
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not. — China Mieville Book Copy Share Image
“There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions.” — China Miéville Regret Copy Share Image
“Well, sometimes," Dane said, "Just because someone uses something wrong doesn't mean it's useless.” — China Miéville Dane Copy Share Image
To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node… — China Mieville Abstract Copy Share Image
“Were you terrified, Murgatroyd?" Murgatroyd nodded eagerly. "There you go, girl: You're a terrorist. You make me twitchy, and under Article Forty-One… — China Miéville Humor Copy Share Image
“Democracy' was a sociological term in Russia in 1917, denoting the masses, the lower class, at least as strongly as it did… — China Miéville Democracy Copy Share Image
Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and… — China Mieville Aliens Copy Share Image
“Pipes filled with brine that spied on the inhabitants of buildings watching, listening, hunting. You might obscure the attention of the Londonmancers,… — China Miéville Communication Copy Share Image
“Bellis gasped. Everywhere lights where suspended. Globes of cold illumination like frost moons, with no trace of the sepia of the New… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick… — China Miéville Manipulation Copy Share Image
“He struggled to overcome his vertigo; he made it something else. No less awe, but less fear. He took what was like… — China Miéville Fear Copy Share Image
“There was one panicked moment. He picked a book from the wall, and the shapes inside, all the letters, were friends to… — China Miéville Astonishment Copy Share Image
Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“[...]i’m not a leftist trying to smuggle in my evil message by the nefarious means of fantasy novels. I’m a science fiction… — China Miéville Fantasy Copy Share Image
“And I who months before had run into town screaming my accusation was shy to say it now that I was asked… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“I've no interest in this city. I do not want to live in a curio , Johannes. This is a sideshow! This… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“You cannot train yourself to successfully and sustainedly unsee and unhear you do them all the time, but they also fail,… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Outside the wind had picked up a little. Isaac sheltered his prize and walked quickly up the little alley that adjoined The… — China Miéville Child Copy Share Image
“Teafortwo was a wyrman. Barrel-chested creatures like squat birds, with thick arms like a human dwarf’s below those ugly, functional wings, the… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Do please,” said Captain Naphi, “expedite this journey relevance-ward.” — China Miéville Journey Copy Share Image
“Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.” — China Miéville Food Copy Share Image
“They are too stupid to fear. Vertigo is too complex for them.” — China Miéville Fear Copy Share Image
“I paid it nuts, Billy. What would you think I'd pay a squirrel?” — China Miéville Squirrel Copy Share Image
“The air was stained by shadows, a darkness burst by lightning like camera flashes.” — China Miéville Darkness Copy Share Image
“He didn’t know what if anything it was his mother got from his father’s company.” — China Miéville Business Copy Share Image
![“[...]i’m not a leftist trying to smuggle in my evil message by the nefarious means of fantasy novels. I’m a science fiction and fantasy geek. I love this stuff. And when I write my novels, I’m not writing them to make political points. I’m writing them because I passionately love monsters and the…” quote by China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1d4/china-mi-ville-1303_fantasy_i-m-not-a-leftist-trying-to-smuggle-in-m_343278.png)
