It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizened child.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.” — China Miéville 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 Copy Share Image
“The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then... what if she had… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The children from the bridge were often waiting there, eyeing me. They congregated by the stump and played a game involving motions… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
