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“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

“… 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

“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)

““She probably used proxies and a cleaner-upper online too, because there was bugger-all of interest in her cache.”
“You have no idea what you’re saying, do you, boss?”
“None at all. I had the techies write it all out phonetically for me.””

China Miéville book The City & the City

Source: The City & the City (2009), Chapter 13 (p. 139)

“As far as I'm concerned, some of the best literature of the last hundred years has come out of the genre tradition and of course the best of it challenges expectations just as the best of literary fiction challenges those expectations. But it's not that genre fiction is any more a constraint than mimetic fiction. So I see myself very much as a genre writer. I love the fantastic genres. I see what I'm doing as a development of them but very much a part of them. I never feel that I'm leaving them behind. I try and be as experimental and avant-garde and stretching as I can be but I don't see that as turning my back on the genre at all. Genre has always been able to encompass that.”

China Miéville

interview with 3am http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2003/feb/interview_china_mieville.html

“Do you even know why you’re angry with me?”

China Miéville book After the Festival

Simone shouted.
“Oh, I’ll figure something out,” Tova said.
After the Festival (p. 196)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“Lists make magic, the rhythm of itemized words: you do not list ten techniques, numbered and chantable, in austere prose appropriate for some early-millennium rebooted Book of Thoth, and not know that you have written an incantation.”

China Miéville book The 9th Technique

The 9th Technique (p. 102)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“Metamorphosis is death. Inside a pupa larval flesh breaks down utterly, as if in chemical spill. Eyes do not become other eyes nor mouthparts mouths. All parts are lost in a reconfiguring slop, as absolutely formless as a salted slug, that ex liquid nihilo self-organizes into a quite other animal. A cocoon is not a transformation pod but an execution chamber, one that doubles as a birthplace, and is parsimonious with matter.”

China Miéville book The 9th Technique

The 9th Technique (p. 104)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)