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Quotes from Three Moments of an Explosion — China Miéville

born 1972 England

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We know the axes on which we should judge, and age has never been one.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

Annalise’s fantasies involve disappearance. She catastrophizes all the time, and makes things worse than they need to be by doing so.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

Koning’s skills were adequate, her calculations plausible enough, that the plans were hubristic but not quite mad.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

Abomination from one perspective, it was advertising copy from another.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

You were sick of sentimentality, of the moralism, maneuvering, and malice that comes with it.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

That was a salvo of something against something.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

How is it appropriate to feel? she thought. Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It’s the surplus of animal fear, it’s never indicated, it’s nothing but itself.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

Moral your artistic proclivities are not, nor fitting for a physician, though I won’t deny the skill in them. They are, I will say it, unnatural.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

They think I’m old-fashioned? Is being against racism and hatred old-fashioned? OK, I’m old-fashioned.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

I told myself I had no choice but in a situation like that the choice you have is how you go about not having a choice.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

She knows most of this, to some extent, and she knows she’s depressed, but if knowing the problem was the solution, most patients wouldn’t need us at all.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

Koning was a self-made expert. She snuggled what she’d bought in the nest she had made of shredded grimoires and scrunched-up rules of engagement. She watched it. It did nothing.

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.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

The priest was nodding as he sang. I remembered his anger. I remembered when his companion said, “Bastards,” and I realized I didn’t know if she meant the godnappers, or the gods who’d let themselves be taken, who’d let everyone down.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

Attribution

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