Reality Warper Quotes

“And Thibault almost falls in astonishment because he sees the man unconcerned by any of the bullets that hit him; he sees him look hard at the closest shooter, and where the man looks, a house rises. Emerging instantly from nothing, clean, freshly painted, fussily rendered, pale, almost translucent. And the soldier, all the soldiers who were where the house is now are gone. Replaced, with a sweep of attention, disappeared from this scene.
The facades of Paris reappear as the figure stares, and they are prettier and far more perfect than they have ever looked, and they are quite empty.
"It was never Fall Rot," says Sam. "Kill Fall Rot and we have called up a manif. Oh dear god. It's bringing a city."
The young man makes it with every look, is reestablishing Paris in pastel outlines, no not reestablishing but establishing newly, a simpering pretense, as it had never been. A cloying imaginary.”
― China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris