"A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus."

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China Mieville

#Mouths Quotes #Littles Quotes #Fungi Quotes

“Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning”
“I will not join any club who will take me as a member.”
“We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.”
“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
“Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.”
“Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?”
“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the onlyÂ great tragedyÂ inÂ life, is not to become a saint.”
“My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts.”

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