325 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch

... I think it's designed to flower open like a Chocolate Orange."Me and Lesley then had to explain Terry's Chocolate Orange to Nightingale."Not unlike a practitioner's hand opening to reveal a werelight," said Nightingale."Not unlike at all," I said. Yeah, exactly like that I thought.

Even at ten o’clock in the morning it was going to be full of members of the public. Rich, influential members of the public, many of them foreign, a lot of them with some level of diplomatic immunity.‘What I’m saying here,’ Seawoll had said, ‘is try to limit the amount of damage you do to none fucking whatsoever.’I don’t know where I got this reputation for property damage, I really don’t

Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.

Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.

I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting"."Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?

Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.

So that's when I came up with the most ridiculous plan since I'd decided to take a witness statement from a ghost. It was a plan so stupid that even Baldrick would have rejected it out of hand.

Bollocks, I thought, or testiculi or possibly testiculos if we were using the accusative.

He'd obviously wanted to tell someone about it for a long time and I was a convenient ear. I get that a lot. Stephanopoulos calls it my secret weapon. "It's that vacant expression," she said, "people just want to fill the empty void".