Looking for Jake Quotes

“Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.”
― China Miéville, Looking for Jake and Other Stories

“It is not they who have closed but I. I've cut myself away. I'm alone, and lonely. What frightens me is that I've not become lonely now, but have looked inside and seen that I was, already. How long has that been going on?”
― China Miéville, Looking for Jake

“It was a very inexact apocalypse.”
― China Miéville, Looking for Jake