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““History…” Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. “Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.””

China Miéville book Iron Council

Part 4 “The Hainting”, chapter 15 (p. 319)
Iron Council (2004)

“Before the humans came, we didn't speak so much of certain things. Before the humans came, we didn't speak so much. Before the humans came, we didn't speak.”

China Miéville Embassytown

p 148-149
Embassytown (2011)

“Throw something away and you declare it obsolete.”

China Miéville book Un Lun Dun

Source: Un Lun Dun (2007), Chapter 12, “Safe Conduct” (p. 52)

“Andrej’s mind, like any sane human’s … was a constantly convulsing dialectical unity of consciousness and subconsciousness, the battening down and channelling of dreams and desires, the recurring re-creation of the subliminal by the contradictory, the rational-capricious ego. And vice versa. The interaction of levels of consciousness into an unstable and permanently self-renewing whole.”

China Miéville book Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 553

“Judah knows the trow will be eradicated and their homes lost to history, but he will not be party to it, and he has tried to stand in its way.”

China Miéville book Iron Council

“Anamnesis” (p. 191)
Iron Council (2004)

“She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.”

China Miéville book Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 32

“The chief was a thuggish man: nervous, Cutter saw, because he knew he was a mediocrity become by kink of history a ruler.”

China Miéville book Iron Council

Part 3 “Wineland”, chapter 12 (p. 130)
Iron Council (2004)

“When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty. We say: A government for need not greed!”

China Miéville book Iron Council

“Anamnesis” (p. 222)
Iron Council (2004)

“Neither dust nor light stirred. It was as if time had been bled dry and given up.”

China Miéville book The Scar

Part 3 “The Compass Factory”, chapter 20 (p. 241)
The Scar (2002)

“She felt so alien, bowed under culture shock as crippling as migraine.”

China Miéville book The Scar

Part 2 “Salt”, chapter 6 (p. 78)
The Scar (2002)

“Lin realized that she was living in an unsustainable realm. It combined sanctimony, decadence, insecurity and snobbery in a weird, neurotic brew. It was parasitic.”

China Miéville book Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 188

“I refuse to play the wink-wink-nudge-nudge game with readers. I don’t like whimsy because it doesn’t treat the fantastic seriously, and treating the fantastic seriously is one of the best ways of celebrating dialectical human consciousness there is. The one-sided celebration of the ego-driven contextually constrained instrumentally rational (as opposed to rational in a broader sense) is bureaucratic: the one-sided celebration of the subconscious, desire/fantasy driven is at best utopian, at worst sociopathic. The best fantasies—which include sf and horror—are constructed with a careful dialectic between conscious and subconscious.”

China Miéville

interview with Joan Gordon

“To take the choice of another … to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to … for all we individuals to have … our choices.”

China Miéville book Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 607

“I’m not waiting to die, I don’t believe I’ll die, I am waiting for something else.
To arrive. To understand. To be at my destination.”

China Miéville book The Scar

Part 1 “Channels”, Interlude II (p. 65)
The Scar (2002)

“There is no theology so desperate that you can’t find it.”

China Miéville book The City & the City

Source: The City & the City (2009), Chapter 4 (p. 38)

“We’re all racing,” he said.
“Yeah, but some of us in the wrong direction.”

China Miéville book Iron Council

Part 6 “The Caucus Race”, chapter 20 (p. 364)
Iron Council (2004)

“Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.”

China Miéville

interview with Joan Gordon

“We have watched mutant creatures crawl from sewers into cold flat starlight and whisper shyly to each other, drawing maps and messages in faecal mud.
I have sat with the wind at my side and seen cruel things, wicked things.
My scars and bonestubs itch. I am forgetting the weight, the sweep, the motion of wings. If I were not garuda I would pray. But I will not obeise myself before arrogant spirits.”

China Miéville book Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 51

“I see echoes with lots of books in all my books, some deliberate, some unconscious until later, and as long as that is respectful I think that's great - writing on the shoulders of other writers is a privilege.”

China Miéville

China Mieville: "My job is not to try to give readers what they want..." http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2012/sep/20/china-mieville-interview, theguardian.com, Thursday 20 September, 2012.

“The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism.”

China Miéville

interview with 3am