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“Any moment calledis always full of possibles.”

China Miéville book Kraken

Source: Kraken

“Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.”

China Miéville book The Scar

Source: The Scar

“My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.”

China Miéville book Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station

“… where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?”

China Miéville book Un Lun Dun

Source: Un Lun Dun

“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.”

China Miéville

“We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge”

China Miéville book Kraken

Source: Kraken

“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 book Looking for Jake

Source: Looking for Jake and Other Stories

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

China Miéville book Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station

“I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.”

China Miéville book Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station

“My Google-fu is strong.”

China Miéville book Kraken

Source: Kraken

“For every action, there’s an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers—and one comes true.”

China Miéville book The Scar

Part 6 “Morning Walker”, chapter 34 (p. 394)
Source: The Scar (2002)

“Art Nouveau was coil-envy.”

China Miéville book Kraken

Kraken

“It is more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?”

China Miéville book The City & the City

Source: The City & the City (2009), Chapter 13 (p. 141)

“The other, more nebulous, but very strong influence of RPGs was the weird fetish for systematization, the way everything is reduced to “game stats.” If you take something like Cthulhu in Lovecraft, for example, it is completely incomprehensible and beyond all human categorization. But in the game Call of Cthulhu, you see Cthulhu’s “strength,” “dexterity,” and so on, carefully expressed numerically. There’s something superheroically banalifying about that approach to the fantastic. On one level it misses the point entirely, but I must admit it appeals to me in its application of some weirdly misplaced rigor onto the fantastic: it’s a kind of exaggeratedly precise approach to secondary world creation.”

China Miéville

interview with Joan Gordon http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/mievilleinterview.htm

“Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war.”

China Miéville book Iron Council

Part 4 “The Hainting”, chapter 15 (p. 314)
Iron Council (2004)

“She shouted, “Arms and tongues, Spiral?” and waggled her arms and stuck out her tongue, and the old man crowed and did the same. “He’s for the first, against the second, as I recall,” she said to Ori. “Has he chanted for you? ‘Too much yammer, not enough hammer.’””

China Miéville book Iron Council

Part 2 “Returns”, chapter 8 (p. 85)
Iron Council (2004)

“It had some allies. Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it.”

China Miéville book Un Lun Dun

Source: Un Lun Dun (2007), Chapter 22, “History Lessons” (p. 90)

“My dad hates umbrellas,” said Deeba, swinging her own. “When it rains he always says the same thing. ‘I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society’s usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.’”

China Miéville book Un Lun Dun

Source: Un Lun Dun (2007), Chapter 3, “The Visiting Smoke” (p. 11)

“He tried to grin but it did not go well.”

China Miéville book The City & the City

Source: The City & the City (2009), Chapter 28 (p. 297)