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Quotes from Kraken: An Anatomy — China Miéville

born 1972 England

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Could you really feel the hand of destiny while pointing a Glock?

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

There are people out there who’d rather be tools than people.

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

It should be illegal to be so much younger than me.

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

He planned his funeral, his oration, the invitations, the snubs, but that, death itself, was always Plan B. How, he would have said to his specialists, might we bypass this unpleasantness?

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

So long as it fated, fate didn’t care what it fated.

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

The tricky bit with this technique was not getting the summons to work: it was to not summon too much.

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

Why wouldn’t the gods of the world be giant squid? What better beast? It wouldn’t take much to imagine those tentacles closing around the world, now would it?

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

This was the remnant of honour, nostalgic for spurious legendary times.

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

Byrne was good, her expertise indispensable, her commitment to the project swiftly personal, but she could not unwind death itself. Only filigree it, in certain ways.

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

We want the same thing, you and me. If we can mess with them, everyone’s happy. Except them. Which is the point, right?”

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

That was how he did it. He was never just a thug. Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

The sea. I bet you the sea might have ideas. Wouldn’t surprise me if the bastard ocean might have a little something to do with all this. Stands to reason, right? Taking back what’s its? Render unto sea, sir.

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: China Miéville (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.