Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
China MievilleI do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.
China MievilleI remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
China MievilleSubby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.
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