“I suppose there were other institutions in Embassytown where the dynamic of the quotidian sustained—some hospitals, perhaps some schools, perhaps houses where shiftparents most deeply loved the children. Whenever any society dies there must be heroes whose fightback is to not change.”

—  China Miéville, Embassytown

Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 15 (p. 213)

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