# Quote — China Miéville, The Scar

> She felt so alien, bowed under culture shock as crippling as migraine.

- Author: [China Miéville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville.md)
- Book: [The Scar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/the-scar.md)
- Page: 78
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville#The_Scar_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/the-scar/she-felt-so-alien

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> Tearfly looked at Bellis curiously, bewildered by her ignorance. She did not care. What was important to her was where she was fleeing from, not where she was, or where she was going.

p. 21 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/the-scar/tearfly-looked-at-bellis.md)

> For every action, there’s an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers—and one comes true.

p. 394 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/the-scar/for-every-action.md)

> I’m not waiting to die, I don’t believe I’ll die, I am waiting for something else.
>
> To arrive. To understand. To be at my destination.

p. 65 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/the-scar/im-not-waiting.md)