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...terrorism could not win once the real terror went. — China Mieville

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory. — China Mieville

Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists. — China Mieville

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 Mieville

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it. — China Mieville

I don't like allegory. — China Mieville

Remember the movements that don't look like moving. — China Mieville

The moon made horns, the sky was gnarly. The cults were skittish. — China Mieville

In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things. — China Mieville

Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he worked. — China Mieville

There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings. — China Mieville

That's what gets converts these days," Baron said. "It's a buyers' market in apocalypse. What's hot in heresy's Armageddon. — China Mieville

There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing thoughts. — China Mieville

Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in a few days' time if you don't phone home. — China Mieville

They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out. — China Mieville

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. — China Mieville

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter. — China Mieville

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge. — China Mieville

They are too stupid to fear. Vertigo is too complex for them. — China Mieville

Do please," said Captain Naphi, "expedite this journey relevance-ward. — China Mieville

Where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it? — China Mieville

I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. I want to be a metaphor. — China Mieville

Sometimes I'd go to his house. If I had some cool cards in my pack of Iceberg Updates, we'd compare collections, maybe swap a few. — China Mieville

Volunteering's an early and strong indication that you're not suited, he said. — China Mieville

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice ... — China Mieville

I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore. — China Mieville

You'd have known that without being told if you let yourself think about it. — China Mieville

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences. — China Mieville

The one that goes: I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. — China Mieville

Anything for gold and experience. — China Mieville

We could take his gag away, thought Isaac, and he wouldn't scream ... but then he might speak ... He left the gag in place. — China Mieville

Vessels knocked together for hour upon hour, like bones, like someone infinitely stupid and patient at the door of an empty house. — China Mieville

If you didn't know, you wouldn't take him for part-ghost - but you'd know he wanted to be somewhere else. — China Mieville

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote. — China Mieville

This is kraken year zero," Moore said. "This is Anno Teuthis. We're in the end times. What d'you think's been going on? — China Mieville

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. — China Mieville

Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things. — China Mieville

He was cheered by this. He was a scientist, not a mystic. — China Mieville

William Gibson told only half the story: like the future, the past is also here in the present, and just as unevenly distributed. — China Mieville

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse. — China Mieville

This gentleman is cactus," said Doul. — China Mieville

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. — China Mieville

Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives. — China Mieville

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. — China Mieville

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid. — China Mieville

There is the heat, which clots the air around her and stops up her pores and her eyes and ears — China Mieville

A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia. — China Mieville

The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers. Now, — China Mieville

When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty. — China Mieville

UnLondon would have to look after itself. She wasn't the Shwazzy. She was just someone. How could just someone be any help, whatever was going on? — China Mieville

Same weather over here as back home," I said. — China Mieville

I'm a very friendly socialist. — China Mieville

Just her, three men, a fidgety pig and lawful intent. — China Mieville

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care. — China Mieville

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness. — China Mieville

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated. — China Mieville

I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it too often. — China Mieville

It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar. — China Mieville

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge — China Mieville

You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do. — China Mieville

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back. — China Mieville

I have some gold. I will interest you. Pity me. I beg you to help me. — China Mieville

New Crobuzon was a city unconvinced by gravity. — China Mieville

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation? — China Mieville

You've met our guards." He gestured at the silent cylindrical guide. "The secret warriors: the binja. — China Mieville

His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate. — China Mieville

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville

Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity. — China Mieville

Devils and Nazis don't work well together. — China Mieville

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. — China Mieville

Everything's fit to be worshipped. — China Mieville

Death isn't what it used to be — China Mieville

I have a rule: I prefer anyone who doesn't try to kill me to anyone who does. I'm funny that way. — China Mieville

At dawn a great shark mouth appears at the horizon smiling like a stupid angel and chewing silently on the sky. Women — China Mieville

I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. — China Mieville

He had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size of the world, straining to swallow him. — China Mieville

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts. — China Mieville

Any moment called now is always full of possibles. — China Mieville

The air was stained by shadows, a darkness burst by lightning like camera flashes. — China Mieville

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion. — China Mieville

Sometimes translation stops you understanding. — China Mieville

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. — China Mieville

Why's there a pharos here?" he said. "You don't put a lighthouse where no one's going to go. You put it somewhere dangerous where they have to go. — China Mieville

The dead are way more organized than the living. — China Mieville

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. — China Mieville

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life. — China Mieville

Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don't mean it's a myth. — China Mieville

The Canadians had Terrell. He was uninfected, in quarantine, and knew nothing. — China Mieville

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes. — China Mieville

Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes. — China Mieville

I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it. — China Mieville

The return to anywhere you last visited as a child is difficult, especially when it's a door. Your heart beats harder when you knock. — China Mieville

A blast, an acceleration, the distillate, the spirit, the history, the weaponized soul of convulsive beauty went critical. — China Mieville

It is a jungle where hierarchies of infinities tower like prehistoric beasts. — China Mieville

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus. — China Mieville

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me. — China Mieville

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. — China Mieville

Liberation was fucked up. — China Mieville

There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions. — China Mieville

With the city like this, don't we have greater needs than poetry? — China Mieville