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  1. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    I admit defeat. I've been trying to present these events with a structure. I simply don't know how everything happened. Perhaps because I didn't pay proper attention, perhaps because it wasn't a narrative, but for whatever reasons, it doesn't want to be what I want to make it.
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  2. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    When I think of my age I think in years, still, even after all this time and travel. It's bad form, and ship-life should have cured me of it. "Years?" one of my first officers shouted at me. "I don't give two shits about whatever your pisspot home's sidereal shenanigans are, I want to know how old you are.
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  3. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    Everything, though, depended on whether we could teach the Ariekei what we had to.
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  4. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.
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  5. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    There were those Hosts who thought something better could have been said and better thoughts therefore thought, had I only been made to do other things than I had. That I could have been a better simile for those in need of one to speak precisely; to speak about those somethings other than me that I was-they would have asserted- like. But those critics of course couldn't say what those thoughts would have been, because they could not have them.
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  6. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    Why's there a pharos here?" he said. "You don't put a lighthouse where no one's going to go. You put it somewhere dangerous where they have to go.
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  7. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
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  8. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    I was bad at money but had amassed some. I couldn't claim that marriage was my real skill, but I was better at it than many. I'd had two previous husbands and a wife. I'd lost them to changes of predilection, without rancour-as I say, I wasn't bad at marriage. Scile was my fourth spouse.
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  9. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    As autom, Ehrsul had neither rights nor tasks, but so far as it was understood an owner, a settler of some previous generation, had died intestate, and she'd never become anyone else's property. There were variants of salvage laws by which someone might theoretically have tried to claim her, but by now it would have seemed abominable.
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  10. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    staggering out of Language, into language
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  11. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    Oratees are addicts. Strung out on an Ambassador's Language."
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  12. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.
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