Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

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• Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.
• What do you think you're doing?
• Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
• The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing events. That's why…
• When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell…
• He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool…
• Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes…
• I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?
• The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That…
• Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen's peace -…
• You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic is real," I…
• ...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
• The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
• Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?' 'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also teach us how…
• For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it…
• This is your brain on magic.
• My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
• 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…
• Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
• The first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever…

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