325 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch

The laws of thermodynamics were very clear on the subject – all debts must be paid in full.

Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge,” said Stephanopoulos. “He was a student at St. Martins College.

Seen something?” asked Nightingale, making me jump. “Jesus Christ,” I said. “Not on this river,” said Nightingale. “Not even Blake thought that was possible.” We.

The magical tradition I belong to exists in the gap between the observable universe and the rational clockwork creation of the Enlightenment. There’s this power. We don’t know where it comes from or why it follows the rules it does, but it definitely exists and there are definite ways to manipulate it. Further advances in science have done little to help our understanding, except to add a growing temptation to attach the word “quantum” to everything.

Actually I’d always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale – to the Jag mobile.

Missing kids are tough cases. I mean, murder is bad but at least the worst has already happened to the victim – they’re not going to get any deader. Missing kids come with a literal deadline, made worse by the fact that you don’t get to learn the timing until it’s too late.

By this point I was eager to emulate Guleed and merge unobtrusively with the imitation French farmhouse fittet cupboard and counter unit behind me.

It’s one of those weird truths you learn early on as police that quite a high percentage of the public have all the survival instinct of a moth in a candle factory.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there’s someone else to do the housework.