Deception Quote by Ian McDonald

“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

“Is this a Kurdish thing?’ ‘What?’ ‘Being deliberately contradictory?”

— Ian McDonald

“And how did you find the East?’ ‘It’s a shit-hole. But it’s our shit-hole.”

— Ian McDonald

“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

“It's the superhero problem . . . .Superpowers make everything personal. Batman versus Joker. Fantastic Four versus Galactus. The Big G might be the…

— Ian McDonald

“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

“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

“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

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

— Ian McDonald

“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

“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

“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