Chris

“A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
― China Miéville, Embassytown

“.. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.”
― Mark Haddon (Author), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Metaphors are lies.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck.

To this day, I still don't know what went wrong.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight