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I suppose there were other institutions in Embassytown where the dynamic of the quotidian sustained—some hospitals, perhaps some schools, perhaps houses where shiftparents most deeply loved the children. Whenever any society dies there must be heroes whose fightback is to not change.

— China Miéville Embassytown (2011)

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

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

"Art’s something you choose to make … it’s a bringing together of … of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person."

Perdido Street Station (2000)

What theology that would have been, a god self-worshipping, a drug addicted to itself.

Embassytown (2011)

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

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

There are no cats in UnLondon, for example, because they’re not magic and mysterious at all, they’re idiots.

Un Lun Dun (2007)

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