# Quote — China Miéville, Embassytown

> 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.

- Author: [China Miéville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville.md)
- Book: [Embassytown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/embassytown.md)
- Page: 213
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville#Embassytown_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/embassytown/i-suppose-there

## More from this book

> A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don’t look back, don’t be each other’s anchors, no nostalgia. I wasn’t expecting any of them to return.

p. 53 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/embassytown/a-classic-unspoken.md)

> “I don’t want to be a simile anymore,” I said. “I want to be a metaphor.”

p. 296 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/embassytown/i-dont-want.md)

> It wasn’t a city anymore, it was a collection of broken places separated by war without politics or acquisition so not war at all really but something more pathological.

p. 238 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/embassytown/it-wasnt-a-city.md)