231 Quotes by China Miéville

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

An everyday Doomsayer in sandwich board abruptly walked away from what, over the last several days, had been his pitch, by the gates of a museum. The sign on his front was an oldschool Prophecy of the End. The one bobbing on his back read 'forget it.

You've met our guards." He gestured at the silent cylindrical guide. "The secret warriors: the binja.

You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though you might be telling two stories at once.

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.

Any moment called now is always full of possibles.

I closed my eyes then but it was too dark to clearly see that vision that my body would conjure out of blood and the inside of skin when light hit it, but I'd seen it so often, examined it so carefully, that it wasn't hard for me to call to mind.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.