China Miéville Quotes
A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

-China Miéville
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Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

-China Miéville
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Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

-China Miéville
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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
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Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

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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.

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When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking about Tolkien, and Tolkien's innumerable . . . Read more

-China Miéville
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

-China Miéville
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