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 Miéville

Stichwörter: goss-and-subby kraken



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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 get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they want is a fairy tale.

China Miéville

Stichwörter: literature



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Any moment called now is always full of possibles.

China Miéville

Stichwörter: present time possibilities



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Imagine if one of them were turned. Imagine if one could be bought.'
'But they're chosen just so's they can't be bought...'
'History...' Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. 'Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.

China Miéville


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We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.

China Miéville

Stichwörter: exploration



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If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means nothing, because it’s only sound, and that’s not where the meaning lives. It needs a mind behind it.

China Miéville

Stichwörter: language science-fiction language-understanding



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Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in a few days' time if you don't phone home.

China Miéville

Stichwörter: children-s-book



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A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

China Miéville

Stichwörter: night creepy uneasiness grating



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The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

China Miéville


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Art Nouveau was coil-envy.

China Miéville


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