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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f0777fb | She was an outsider. Had left her sisters. Forgotten hive and moiety. | China Miéville | ||
| 3660a17 | She felt so alien, bowed under culture shock as crippling as migraine. | China Miéville | ||
| 061795a | Neither dust nor light stirred. It was as if time had been bled dry and given up. | China Miéville | ||
| 2835c53 | I want to know everything, he says. | China Miéville | ||
| e462148 | When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty. We say: A government for need not greed! | China Miéville | ||
| 4d41cc4 | Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war. | China Miéville | ||
| 0ddd197 | We're all racing," he said."Yeah, but some of us in the wrong direction." | China Miéville | ||
| 8d5c02c | Throw something away and you declare it obsolete. | China Miéville | ||
| 0b21db1 | It had some allies. Believe me, there's nothing so terrible that someone won't support it. | China Miéville | ||
| 4b3ac7b | There is no theology so desperate that you can't find it. | China Miéville | ||
| f85ca86 | It is more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not? | China Miéville | ||
| abf03b0 | He tried to grin but it did not go well. | China Miéville | ||
| 4b6f609 | It should be illegal to be so much younger than me. | China Miéville | ||
| feea943 | There are people out there who'd rather be tools than people. | China Miéville | ||
| 7bbc4d8 | London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness. | China Miéville | ||
| c4a11b4 | Could you really feel the hand of destiny while pointing a Glock? | China Miéville | ||
| cefd78a | This was the remnant of honour, nostalgic for spurious legendary times. | China Miéville | ||
| 4a369ed | It's beyond words," indeed. "There's no such thing." | China Miéville | ||
| b570366 | What theology that would have been, a god self-worshipping, a drug addicted to itself. | China Miéville | ||
| 13a04d2 | There wasn't even any reasoning. Secrecy was just a bureaucrats' reflex. | China Miéville | ||
| 5845f87 | I don't want to be a simile anymore," I said. "I want to be a metaphor." | China Miéville | ||
| a3dbdc1 | Their minds were sudden merchants: metaphor, like money, equalised the incommensurable. | China Miéville | ||
| 9098f5d | The CCP's goal is not silence but isolation: you can say things, but you can't organise. | Chinese Communist Party | ||
| 93324cb | To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. | Chinmayananda Saraswati | ||
| 047130e | Do the best and leave the rest. | Chinmayananda Saraswati | ||
| 6a4331a | The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| e7b84a4 | The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| a88a41d | Proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 191c366 | When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 3076f9f | As a man danced so the drums were beaten for him. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 480c47d | Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| bcedd53 | A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| a1235fe | If one finger brings oil it soils the others. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| fa9ef1f | When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 68640b5 | He looked as bright as a new shilling in his immaculate white robes. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 92d7e60 | We had all accepted things from white skins that none of us would have brooked from our own people. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 5dcd7cc | Men may rule the world, but women rule the men who rule the world. | Chinweizu Ibekwe | ||
| 3faa386 | The [mask-wearing] ban [by Hong Kong protesters] represents a setback in democracy. | Cho Jung-tai | ||
| d91a2a1 | Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. | Chocolate | ||
| 5f05747 | Well, folks, it looks like we're up chocolate creek without a popsicle stick. | Chocolate | ||
| 3c14acd | Love, biochemically no different than consuming large quantities of chocolate. | Chocolate | ||
| 48add4c | A raging seaa block of ice. | Choha | ||
| b93fb72 | He that will not when he may,When he will he shall have nay. | Choice | ||
| 9c3549f | Better to sink beneath the shockThan moulder piecemeal on the rock! | Choice |