“They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“This was the first time any adult had hit me. The window-cleaner winced with every strike. I felt better and worse that… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“His manager taught him that words change with time, by single letters or more, sometimes their whole roots switching—a “y” to an… — 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… — 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
“There was a time when wen we did not form all our words as we do now, in writing on a page.… — China Miéville 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 Copy Share Image
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by… — China Mieville 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 Copy Share Image
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Oh, bullshit. This isn't one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody locals, one slip of… — 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
