I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

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

To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

It 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 she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.