# Quote — China Miéville, Embassytown

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

- Author: [China Miéville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville.md)
- Book: [Embassytown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/embassytown.md)
- Page: 239
- 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/what-theology-that

## 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)