“A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.”

“The moon made horns, the sky was gnarly. The cults were skittish.”

“Its surface sheened with saft that evaporated out from its crystal shielding in threads that degraded to nothing.”

“A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”

“Well, sometimes," Dane said, "Just because someone uses something wrong doesn't mean it's useless.”

“Bellis gasped.Everywhere lights where suspended. Globes of cold illumination like frost moons, with no trace of the sepia of the New Crobuzon's gaslamps. The city glowed in the darkening water like a net full of ghostly lights.The outer edges of the city were low buildings in porous stone and coral.”

“Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.”