325 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch

It’s important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don’t get the irony in Eminem.

Carnivorous unicorns, I thought.

I’d found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London.

You don’t get to be a senior investigating officer unless you have a degree in scepticism, an MA in distrust and your CV lists suspicious bastard under your hobbies.

I turned right onto the A410 which went north with suspiciously Roman straightness toward Aymestrey, which is less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road.

In home furnishing terms, past a certain point, more money doesn’t get you anything except an increase in insurance premiums. An.

If you ask any copper why they stick at a job which exposes them to abuse from everyone from petty criminals all the way down to government ministers, they’ll say it’s the variety.

If you’re afraid of wolves,’ said Varvara Sidorovna, ’don’t go to the woods.

And I personally don’t so much believe in it as have to massage its feet when I go home at night.