# Quote — China Miéville, Kraken

> Byrne was good, her expertise indispensable, her commitment to the project swiftly personal, but she could not unwind death itself. Only filigree it, in certain ways.

- Author: [China Miéville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville.md)
- Book: [Kraken](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/kraken.md)
- Page: 420
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville#Kraken:_An_Anatomy_(2010)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/kraken/byrne-was-good

## More from this book

> So long as it fated, fate didn’t care what it fated.

p. 496 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/kraken/so-long-as-it-fated.md)

> He had remembered Vardy’s melancholy, the rage in him, and what Collingswood had once said. She was right. Vardy’s tragedy was that his faith had been defeated by the evidence, and he could not stop missing that faith. He was not a creationist, not any longer, not for years. And that was unbearable to him. He could only wish that his erstwhile wrongness had been right.

p. 497 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/kraken/he-had-remembered.md)

> This was the remnant of honour, nostalgic for spurious legendary times.

p. 421 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/kraken/this-was-the.md)