China Miéville quotes
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and sometimes they're amiable and sometimes not.
In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.