“We say what happens now. We’re taking control. We’re turning around; we’re heading home. Your orders to proceed…are in-fucking-validated.”

— China Miéville , book The Scar

Part 7 “The Lookout”, chapter 47 (p. 557)
The Scar (2002)

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