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1. "I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek." ~ China Mieville
2. "I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book." ~ China Mieville
3. "I love monsters." ~ China Mieville
4. "I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today." ~ China Mieville
5. "I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real." ~ China Mieville
6. "I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice..." ~ China Miéville
7. "A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge." ~ China Miéville
8. "A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out all kinds of crazy knackery, it was out of control. Whatever. As if the story, if big enough, reflected glory on the teller." ~ China Miéville
9. "Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird." ~ China Miéville
10. "The dead are way more organized than the living." ~ China Miéville
11. "Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd." ~ China Miéville
12. "He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't." ~ China Miéville
13. "Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he worked." ~ China Miéville
14. "London was a graveyard haunted by dead faiths. A city and a landscape. A market laid on feudalisms. Gathering and hunting, little pockets of alterity, too, but most of all in the level Billy had come to live in a tilework of fiefdoms, theocratic duchies, zones and spheres of influences, over each of which some local despot, some criminal pope, sat watch. It was all who-knew-whom, gave access to what, greased which palms on what route to where." ~ China Miéville
15. "I know your job's to channel the bleeding divine, and when have I ever stood in your way? Aren't I the bloke puts "Do Not Disturb, Eschatology Being Revelationed" on your door? EH? But you're supposed to keep me in the loop, and turn up when I need you, and do me the sheer minimum modicum of salutage and whatnot, right?" ~ China Miéville
16. "Pokud cloveka mátlo pobývat v Prízrakove, kde ho obklopovali duchové predchozích forem, ocitnout se uvnitr této budovy mu vyrazilo dech. Zdálo se, jako by se chodba stahovala a zužovala podle kolotání jejích duchu. Steny byly ovešené osvedceními a obrazy, které obklopovaly další v prízracné podobe. Kolem svetel visely prízraky holých žárovek a složitých lustru."Myslím, že hodím šavli," rekla Deeba."To je ti jenom duchno," poznamenal Hemi. "To se spraví." ~ China Miéville
17. "How do you...? What is it you're doing?" he said to Vardy as the man took a breath, mid-insight. What do you call that? Billy thought. That reconstitutitive intelligence, berserker meme-splicing, seeing in nothings first patterns, then correspondence, then causality and dissident sense.Vardy even smiled. "Paranoid," he said. "Theology." ~ China Miéville
18. "Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole." ~ China Miéville
19. "It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth." ~ China Miéville
20. "She was Remade she was (Remade scum), he knew it, he saw it, and still he felt incessantly what was inside him, and he felt a great scab of habit and prejudice split from him, part from his skin where his homeland had inscribed him deep. [...]There was a caustic pain as he peeled off a clot of old life and exposed himself open and unsure to her, to new air. [...] His feelings welled out and bled together (their festering ceased) and they began to resolve, to heal in a new form, to scar." ~ China Miéville
21. "Well, sometimes," Dane said, "Just because someone uses something wrong doesn't mean it's useless." ~ China Miéville
22. "From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and horrified investigators." ~ China Miéville
23. "We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore." ~ China Miéville
24. "So...I'm the funny one? I'm the funny sidekick?...That's no way to talk about anyone! To say they're just hangers-on to someone more important." ~ China Miéville
25. "...he had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size of the world, straining to swallow him." ~ China Miéville
26. "You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do." ~ China Miéville
27. "Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamored with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across." ~ China Miéville
28. "It had become a chimney poking from a vertical universe of bookshelves. There was motion below her. There were people on the shelves. They clung to the edges of the cases and moved across them in expert scuttles. They wore ropes and hooks and carried picks on which they sometimes hung. Dangling from straps they carried notebooks, pens, magnifying glasses, ink pads, and stamps. The men and women took books from the shelves as they went, checked their details, leaning against their ropes, replaced them, pulled out little pads and made notes, sometimes carried the books with them to another place and reshelved it there. ... I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. 'Extreme librarian. Bookaneer." ~ China Miéville
29. "In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.I can't say goodbye." ~ China Miéville
30. "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
31. "Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person." ~ China Miéville
32. "I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion." ~ China Miéville
33. "I turn away from him and step into the vastness of New Crobuzon, this towering edifice of architecture and history, this complexitude of money and slum, this profane steam-powered god. I turn and walk into the city my home, not bird or garuda, not miserable crossbreed.I turn and walk into my home, the city, a man." ~ China Miéville
34. "...and Lublamai no longer thought of screaming but only of watching as those dark markings rolled and boiled in perfect symetry across the wings like clouds in a night sky above, in water below." ~ China Miéville
35. "Do please," said Captain Naphi, "expedite this journey relevance-ward." ~ China Miéville
36. "While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision." ~ China Miéville
37. "But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse." ~ China Miéville
38. "Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find out. If you can't find out you bloody well make it up and then you make it so." ~ China Miéville
39. "When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty." ~ China Miéville
40. "Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives." ~ China Miéville
41. "Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear.""Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?""I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter L. Partly because given the choice between nonsense and boojy wittering you blatantly have to choose nonsense." ~ China Miéville
42. "The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama." ~ China Miéville
43. "It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar." ~ China Miéville
44. "Anxieties and controversies were now as clearly traceable through it as woodgrain through varnish." ~ China Miéville
45. "Like some waterhole in the veldt, she though unclearly, where the weak and the strong and predatory drink together in a truce: the gazelle, the wildebeest, the mafadet, and the lion. All the possibilities lined up together in fucking harmony, and the winner, the strongest, the fact, the real, letting the others that have failed live, letting them all live. Pacifist and pathetic." ~ China Miéville
46. "Pipes filled with brine that spied on the inhabitants of buildings watching, listening, hunting. You might obscure the attention of the Londonmancers, with the complicity of a treacherous borough, with strikebreaking hexes strong enough: but nothing could stay hidden from an inquisitive sea." ~ China Miéville
47. "Indeed, an astoundingly small proportion of arguments ‘for free speech' and ‘against censorship' or ‘banning' are, in fact, about free speech, censorship or banning. It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say something & having the moral right not to be held accountable for what you say. Being asked to apologise for saying something unconscionable is not the same as being stripped of the legal right to say it. It's really not very f-cking complicated. Cry "free speech" in such contexts, you are demanding the right to speak any bilge you wish without apology or fear of comeback. You are demanding not legal rights but an end to debate about and criticism of what you say. When did bigotry get so needy? This assertive & idiotic failure to understand that juridical permissibility backed up by the state is not the horizon of politics or morality is absurdly resilient." ~ China Miéville
48. "A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay and stream has been classified as if it were discrete. But it is one thing, where borders are absurd. It fills the space between stones and sand, curling around coastlines and filling trenches between the continents." ~ China Miéville
49. "A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory." ~ China Miéville
50. "Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?" ~ China Miéville
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