Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
China MiévilleI'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...
China MiévilleTags: cowardice regret injunctions
A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?
China MiévilleTags: salvation promises prophecies anticlimax
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns.
You have never spoken before.
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It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.
China MiévilleA scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.
China MiévilleI couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.
China MiévilleI differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.
China MiévilleA trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
China MiévilleRemember the movements that don't look like moving.
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