Quotes by China Miéville, Embassytown

Explore a curated collection of 10 quotes by China Miéville, Embassytown. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we thin — China Miéville, Embassytown
If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I do the same with a word in — China Miéville, Embassytown
Sometimes translation stops you understanding. — China Miéville, Embassytown
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit a — China Miéville, Embassytown
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, — China Miéville, Embassytown
Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth. — China Miéville, Embassytown
I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter. — China Miéville, Embassytown
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... — China Miéville, Embassytown
A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected sal — China Miéville, Embassytown
You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts. — China Miéville, Embassytown