325 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

She was spontaneously created by the midichlorians,' I said. Both women gave me blank looks. 'Never mind.

We decided to go back to basics and put the frighteners on some snouts.""Really?""We adopted a proactive intelligence-gathering policy utilising appropriate stakeholders in the community and pre-established covert human intelligence sources."And nobody can put a frightener on a covert human quite like Lesley can.

As Martin noted, to the detectives conducting his interview, it was a good thing he'd been inebriated, because otherwise he would have wasted time screaming and running about - especially once he realized he was standing in a pool of blood. Instead, with the slow methodical patience of the drunk and terrified, Martin Turner dialed 999 and asked for the police.

Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.