Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites. — China Mieville Copy Share
Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there… — China Mieville 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
