Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
China MievilleEverything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.
China MievilleOne of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
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 Mieville