“This was the most difficult, the most extraordinary transition. Her body had been a source of shame and disgust; to engage in activities with no purpose at all except to revel in their sheer physicality had first nauseated, then terrified, and finally liberated her.”
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China Miéville
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Perdido Street Station
Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 188
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