China Miéville said this quote

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

~ China Miéville

The dead are way more organized than the living.

~ China Miéville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.I can't say goodbye.

~ China Miéville

We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang.

~ China Miéville