Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.
China MievilleWord spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
China MievilleTo 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.
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.
China Mieville