# Quote — China Miéville, Kraken

> Why wouldn’t the gods of the world be giant squid? What better beast? It wouldn’t take much to imagine those tentacles closing around the world, now would it?

- Author: [China Miéville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville.md)
- Book: [Kraken](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/kraken.md)
- Page: 145
- 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/why-wouldnt-the

## 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)