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“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.”
China Miéville
“You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.”
China Miéville, Embassytown“A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?”
China Miéville, Embassytown“I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...”
China Miéville, Embassytown“I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.”
China Miéville, Embassytown“Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.”
China Miéville, Embassytown“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”
China Miéville, Embassytown“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, Embassytown“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.”
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