“I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.” — China Miéville Librarian Copy Share Image
“Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.” — China Miéville Children Copy Share Image
“He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't.” — China Miéville Religion 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
“The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.” — China Miéville Light Copy Share Image
“You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to… — China Miéville Prophets Copy Share Image
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... — China Mieville Cowardice Copy Share Image
“They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.” — China Miéville Guns Copy Share Image
My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give. — China Mieville Books 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… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.” — China Miéville Guns Copy Share Image
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. — China Mieville Absurd Copy Share Image
“...he had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size… — 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 Children Copy Share Image
Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed… — China Mieville Apples Copy Share Image
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can… — China Mieville Book Copy Share Image
There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the… — China Mieville Limitless Copy Share Image
My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job.… — China Miéville Science Copy Share Image
“Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out… — China Miéville King-lear Copy Share Image
“My father passed me. He looked briefly at me as you might at a stump or a broken machine or anything that’s… — China Miéville Computers Copy Share Image
“The early days of revolution were remarkable for how submerged and scattered that hard right was. Most of its high-profile figures had… — China Miéville October revolution Copy Share Image
“Oh, bullshit,” Wyatt said. I blinked. “This isn’t one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an… — China Mieville Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“Časový golem povstal a byl, ignoroval linearitu kolem sebe, pouze byl. Byl narušením, strašlivým proniknutím do sledu okamžiků, sraženinou v diachronii, která… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Some midnight-of-all or other [apocalypse] was predicted every few days or nights. Most came to nothing, leaving relevant prophets cringing with a… — China Miéville Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“We cannot see the universe. We are in the darkness of a trench, a deep cut, dark water heavier than earth, presences… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Dane discarded his speargun with visible relief. As a paladin of the Church of God Kraken, he had few options. Like many… — China Miéville Guns Copy Share Image
“Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.” — China Miéville Food Copy Share Image
“The air was stained by shadows, a darkness burst by lightning like camera flashes.” — China Miéville Darkness 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
“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
“Where was that crisis energy in the real becoming what it was not, if what it was not was right there alongside… — China Miéville Crisis Copy Share Image
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“He said, You’ll write it not because there’s no possibility it’ll be found but because it costs too much to not write… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
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