cherry’s Reviews > Embassytown > Status Update

Things like crossbreed anemones and moths froze as we passed, waved sensory limbs behind us. Our cart rutted toward the settlements and animals like rags of paper flew in the hot sky. The farmstead at the end of knotted man-thick tributaries of the pipework was as restless as most architecture. A squirming tower laid young machinery in eggs. The paper-shred birds picked parasite from it. -pg 196

"A corvid dropped us deep in the city, in astonishing rooms, catacombs in the skin, alcoves full of house's organs sutured in place. I'd never seen so many young... They matched their parents in size and shape, but they were children and you could tell by the colour of their bellies and the way they were given to swaying. They were avid spectators while the liars tried to lie."

"At something over a hundred metres it was the tallest building we had. A fat pillar, studed with horizontal boughs and landing pads, to and from which, even so late, bioluminescent corvids moved."

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