...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do…

China Mieville
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...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
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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 t … ▶
A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge. ✨ China Mieville (2000). King Rat, p.254, Macmillan
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 … ▶
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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. ✨ Embassytown. Book by China Mieville, 2011.

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