China MievilleLoads 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 … ▶371HumanityReading
China MievilleWe should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge372Love
China MievilleSomeone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?' 'Please,' Billy said. 'That would be a bi… ▶341Sadness
China MievilleThe problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. ✨ Fantasy and revolution. Interview with John Newsinger, ww… ▶353Love
China MievilleScars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.376Death
China MievilleWe would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that h… ▶355Reflection
China MievilleMy sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.322Thought
China MievilleIs it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?323Sadness
China MievilleFantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for met… ▶357Death
China MievilleA scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.281Truth
China MievillePart of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.337Thought
China MievilleI have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.304Reflection
China MievillePEOPLE HAVE WANTED TO narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one b… ▶349HumanityReading
China MievilleThe dead are way more organized than the living. ✨ Un Lun Dun. Book by China Mievill, January, 2007.316DeathLifeReading
China MievilleAnything for gold and experience.3510Life
China MievilleEverything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.251Sadness
China MievilleI couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.251Thought
China MievilleIt 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. ✨ Embassytown. Boo… ▶296ReadingThought
China MievilleFor every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibiliti… ▶263ReflectionTruth
China MievilleWhile 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 y… ▶274Politics
China MievilleArt 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.329Humanity
China MievilleA sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.231Time
China MievilleA sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.287Death
China MievilleIt 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 … ▶309Time
China MievilleScars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.232Time
China MievilleRemember the movements that don't look like moving.287Philosophy
China MievilleWord spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.309Reading
China MievilleFantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. ✨ This much I know. Interview With Tom Templet… ▶277Love
China MievillePerhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.256Humor
China MievilleIn the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on the… ▶202Death
