89 Quotes by Mick Herron

Yes yes yes, we'll get the grammar police onto her first thing. Do they have actual powers of arrest, do you think? Or will they just hang her from the nearest participle?

Don't. Don't do anything. Just go. Now."It was always possible that if you very quickly told a man four times to do something, he'd get the message.

Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second.

Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe.

She started drawing up a mental list of everyone she didn’t trust, and had to stop immediately. She didn’t have all day.

Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them.This was true of stupid ideas too.Telling them apart was the tricky bit.

This is what memory is: an abiding awareness that some things have vanished. And this is what consciousness is: the knowledge that more absences will come.

it was possible that when Lamb tempted her, it was because he wanted her to fall. The important thing to remember was that she'd not done so yet.

We are talking about a bunch of mindless bottom feeders who is general ignorance of a way of life is tempered only by their indifference to human suffering, we are all agreed on that?""Is this the politicians all the killers?""good point, but I meant the killers.