# Quote — China Miéville, Kraken

> The Londonmancers had been there since Gogmagog and Corineus, since Mithras and the rest. Like their sibling chapters in other psychopoli…they had always been ostentatiously neutral. That was how they could survive.
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> Not custodians of the city: they called themselves its cells. They recruited young and nurtured hexes, shapings, foresight and the diagnostic trances they called urbopathy. They, they insisted, were just conduits for the flows gathered by streets. They did not worship London but held it in respectful distrust, channelled its needs, urges and insights.

- 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/the-londonmancers-had

## 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)