Quotes About Embassytown

#1. The top bag popped, and a metric ton of old lasagna spilled onto my pants. The stench of soured spaghetti sauce washed over me. Ew. Of all the trash from this whole giant building, I had to step on a bag from the food court. Damn it.

Ilona Andrews

#2. A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia.

China Mieville

#3. What happened?" I asked. "What did you say?"
Roger put the key in the ignition and looked over at me. "I told her good-bye," he said. Then he started the car and put in in gear, and we headed out.

Morgan Matson

#4. Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

Heinz Von Foerster

#5. If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

Eckhart Tolle

#6. You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

Pat Barker

#7. The city's a heart, I said, and in that a heart and a city were sutured into a third thing, a heartish city, and cities are heart-stained, and hearts are city-stained too.

China Mieville

#8. Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

John Ray