# Quote — China Miéville, The City & The City

> He tried to grin but it did not go well.

- Author: [China Miéville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville.md)
- Book: [The City & The City](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/the-city-the-city.md)
- Page: 297
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville#The_City_%26_the_City_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/the-city-the-city/he-tried-to-grin

## More from this book

> “She probably used proxies and a cleaner-upper online too, because there was bugger-all of interest in her cache.”
>
> “You have no idea what you’re saying, do you, boss?”
>
> “None at all. I had the techies write it all out phonetically for me.”

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/the-city-the-city/she-probably-used.md)

> It is more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?

p. 141 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/the-city-the-city/it-is-more.md)

> There is no theology so desperate that you can’t find it.

p. 38 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/the-city-the-city/there-is-no-theology.md)