Quote by Ian McDonald Download Open image ““And how did you find the East?’ ‘It’s a shit-hole. But it’s our shit-hole.”” — Ian McDonald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“No, the world’s not all shit. There are just some seriously shitty people in it,” — Joy Ellis Copy Share Image
“Basically it means the world's a giant shithole, but some of us are capable of imagining something better.” — Claire LaZebnik Copy Share Image
“They beat the shit out of me. But you know what? I didn't need that shit inside of me. I'm glad it's gone.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I shouldn’t have asked you about where we’re goin’ from here because I don’t give a fuck about where you think we’re goin’.” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“East just twirls his hand in a circle by his head. Cuckoo. His sentiments on the matter are clear.” — Cece Rose 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 human, speaking… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“Is this a Kurdish thing?’ ‘What?’ ‘Being deliberately contradictory?” — Ian McDonald 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 inscription, cornice… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“It's the superhero problem . . . .Superpowers make everything personal. Batman versus Joker. Fantastic Four versus Galactus. The Big G might be the… — Ian McDonald 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 post-Union fusion… — Ian McDonald 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 that healed,… — Ian McDonald 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 dared mention… — Ian McDonald 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 North Pole… — Ian McDonald 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 were to… — Ian McDonald 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 the Mevlana,… — Ian McDonald 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, was direly… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
