325 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch

It’s not the book that’s important,’ I said. ‘It’s the reading.

I asked whether the High Fae came into the pub. Lulu gave me a crooked smile. “High Fae?” she asked. “You know. The gentry, elves, those posh gits with extradimensional castles, stone spears and unicorns.” “You mean them what step between worlds?” “Could be.” “Who walk on paths unseen and wax and wane with the moon?” “Them sort of people,” I said. “Yeah.” “Not in here, squire,” she said. “I run a respectable pub.

We were suffering a standard gray London drizzle, the sort that makes it clear that it can keep it up all day if needs be.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam,’ I said which means, ‘I’ll either find a way or make one.

Librarianship... it’s not for the faint-hearted.

My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you’re born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train’s pulled into Piccadilly Circus they’ve become a Londoner.

In some households you only have to turn up three times before you’re expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard.

Step Two: don’t panic. When Nightingale was training me he said that if you’re not dead in the first instance, then your chances of survival are much improved. ‘By how much?’ I’d asked. ‘That depends,’ said Nightingale. ‘On what?’ ‘On what happens next,’ he said.

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