325 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch

If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it’s your safest bet.

The house had probably cost a couple of million quid, with its two stories plus loft conversion, red brick, and detailing on the porch roof that hinted at Arts and Crafts without actually making it over the finishing line. It was at least mercifully free of pebble-dash and fake half-timbering. They’d retained the original sash windows but installed the venetian blinds that have replaced net curtains as the genteel response to sharing your neighborhood with other human beings.

Because who is more oppressed,” exclaimed Leslie. “Those that seek nothing but entitlements for themselves or those that claim for everything, social security, housing benefit, disability and pay for nothing.” One.

I don’t like it, Peter,” he’d said after the morning briefing. “It’s all too complicated. Chorley has proved masterful at deceiving us in the past.

Peter Grant,’ I said. ‘Recent arrival, slacker and man of very little fame.

You do magic by learning formae which are like shapes in your mind that have an effect on the physical universe.

A romantic,” said Nightingale much, much later. “The most dangerous people on Earth.

Stephanopoulos was waiting for me inside. She was a short, terrifying woman whose legendary capacity for revenge had earned her the title of the lesbian officer least likely to have a flippant remark made about her sexual orientation. She was stocky, and had a square face that wasn’t helped by a Sheena Easton flat-top that you might have called ironic postmodern dyke chic, but only if you really craved suffering.

Because were were both probationary constables, an experienced PC had been left to supervise us – a responsibility he diligently pursued from an all-night cafe on St. Martin’s Close.