# Quote — China Miéville, Kraken

> That was why this congregation protected him. He was not just another saint. Billy was the preserver. Giant-squid John the Baptist. The shyness he saw in the Krakenists was devotion. It was awe.
>
> “Oh for God’s sake,” he said.
>
> The men and women stared. He could see them attempting exegesis on his outburst.

- Author: [China Miéville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville.md)
- Book: [Kraken](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/kraken.md)
- 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/that-was-why

## 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)