“And how did you find the East?’ ‘It’s a shit-hole. But it’s our shit-hole.” — Ian McDonald East Copy Share Image
“Is this a Kurdish thing?’ ‘What?’ ‘Being deliberately contradictory?” — Ian McDonald Contradictory Copy Share Image
“Her face had always held too much personality to be merely beautiful.” — Ian McDonald Beauty Copy Share Image
“Do you think it’s a conspiracy?’ ‘Mr Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.” — Ian McDonald God is dead Copy Share Image
“It’s another post-EU incongruity. Spas are sissy, indulgent, European. Hamams are authentic and Turkish.” — Ian McDonald Indulgent European Copy Share Image
In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of… — Ian McDonald Age Copy Share Image
Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make… — Ian McDonald Deception Copy Share Image
“It is a fake, but a good fake. Turkey is the land of the masterful fake. But it is far far from… — Ian McDonald Fake Copy Share Image
There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular.… — Ian McDonald Behavior Copy Share Image
“We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.” — Ian McDonald Fallibility Copy Share Image
“Like these entities may be the lost acres of the mind, things that have been overlooked by the higher consciousness; that it… — Ian McDonald Blind Copy Share Image
“Najia can feel yts subdermal activators against her forearm. Not man not woman not both not neither. Nute. Another way of being… — Ian McDonald Cyberpunk Copy Share Image
“A joyful task,’ he says and she realizes that he welcomes the idea of years of searching, tile by tile, inscription by… — Ian McDonald Happiness Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing will kill Turkey,’ she would say, ‘it is a famine of ideas.’ No one in her coterie… — Ian McDonald Personal space Copy Share Image
“The army doctor who had patched up his hands and examined him after the rescue at Kayişdaği told him a story about… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“Talvin Singh, Thievery Corporation, A.R. Rahman, AmarBaaba Maal, Asian Dub Foundation, Autechre, Badmarsh and Sri, Bjork, Black Star Liner, The Blue Nile,… — Ian McDonald Black star Copy Share Image
“It's the superhero problem . . . .Superpowers make everything personal. Batman versus Joker. Fantastic Four versus Galactus. The Big G might… — Ian McDonald Batman Copy Share Image
“A CITY IS AS much a state of mind as a place—a set of perceptions of place. On the last train home… — Ian McDonald Big city Copy Share Image
“In our five thousand years of civilization, our history has often been the handmaid of geography. We lie exactly midway between the… — Ian McDonald History Copy Share Image
“Marcelina loved that miniscule, precise moment when the needle entered her face. It was silver; it was pure. It was the violence… — Ian McDonald Beauty Copy Share Image
“I do rather like birds,’ Abdullah Unul says. ‘They’re busy, active little things. They make do. Have you ever thought, if Istanbul… — Ian McDonald Bird Copy Share Image
“This is always always always what she wished a bazaar to be. Demre, proudly claiming to be the birthplace of Santa Claus,… — Ian McDonald Silk road Copy Share Image
“Water splashes and runs in a film across the glass floor suspended above the mosaics. The Hacı Kadın hamam is a typical… — Ian McDonald Ottomans Ate Copy Share Image
“It is always dangerous when your enemy has a sense of humor. Ask Batman.” — ian mcdonald Comedy Copy Share Image
“If God truly were inside you, could you bear to look at it? Necdet says.” — Ian McDonald God Copy Share Image
“The exoneration of the mass. No one voice is to blame. But his voice was there.” — Ian McDonald Blame Copy Share Image
He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He… — Ian McDonald Believe Copy Share Image
“Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history… — Ian McDonald History Copy Share Image
“Sensitive dependence on initial conditions; one word, one act, can change the world. Well they named it chaos theory.” — Ian McDonald Change the world Copy Share Image
“The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy… — Ian McDonald Easy road Copy Share Image
“Well, the human genome has massive redundancy - that means that two per cent of the DNA does all the work of… — Ian McDonald Evolution Copy Share Image
“Ayşe has always admired the Ottoman talent for euphemism. The Auspicious Event was the massacre and execution of ten thousand Janissaries. Bodies… — Ian McDonald Israel Copy Share Image
“He never looked great but he's dreadful now, face thin and eyes staring like you see in cartoons of mad imams and… — Ian McDonald Choosing-friends-wisely Copy Share Image
“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details… — Ian McDonald Art Copy Share Image
“It’s one thing building a cloister to reflect the 768 of the numerological Bismillah, it’s another planning a giant alphabet out of… — Ian McDonald Cistern Inspired Copy Share Image
“After the plates are removed by the silent and swift waiting staff, General Çiller leans forward and says across the table to… — Ian McDonald European union Copy Share Image
