Quotes from Ben Aaronovitch

I actually used the word "groovy" and she didn't even flinch, which was worrying on so many levels.

What do you see when you look at me like that?" she asked. I didn't have a good answer, so I went for honesty instead. "I don't know," I said. "Everything. That's what I see—everything." "You think I'm that huge, then?" she said. "I am woman, I contain multitudes. All shall look upon me and despair." "Shall I compare thee to a giant squid," I said. "Thou art more lovely and less tentacled.

Prophecy," said Alastair. "We saw the future." Both me and Guleed were actually struck dumb—which is not a good look in a pair of experienced police officers. Fortunately, Alastair was off with the fairies and so didn't notice, and thus was the much vaunted mystique of the Metropolitan Police preserved.

Obviously the city had been feeling its oats at the end of the eighteenth century and, between all those displaced agricultural workers in the mills and the slaves on the plantations in the Caribbean, it had money to burn.

street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo,

Norwich station has your standard late-Victorian brick, cast-iron, and glass shed retrofitted with the bright molded plastic of various fast-food franchises. I gratefully staggered in the direction of Upper Crust and considered asking if I could stick my head under their coffee spigot but settled for a couple of double espressos and a chicken tikka masala baguette instead.

That's the curse of librarianship. If your library is of any quality at all, then its collection is going to outpace your manpower.

Was your husband upset?' 'How can you tell with an Englishman?

I also noticed that the DJ had stopped talking over the tracks, and any DJ tired of the sound of his own voice is tired indeed.

It started at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, Street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo, tripped over a body in front of the West Portico of St. Paul's at Covent Garden. Martin, who was none too sober himself

We decided to go back to basics and put the frighteners on some snouts." "Really?" "We adopted a proactive intelligence-gathering policy utilising appropriate stakeholders in the community and pre-established covert human intelligence sources. "And nobody can put a frightener on a covert human quite like Lesley can.

A civilizáció és bürokrácia egy másik kulcsfontosságú jellemz?je a tehetetlenség.

We used to wait for our electronics to warm up, now it's our software.

What have we got to lose?" I said. Nightingale looked up and gave me a strange, sad smile. "Oh, everything, Peter," he said. "But then, such is life.

The Grand Master had two anvils – a standard farrier's type for dropping on cartoon characters, and a broader-topped one with no horn that she was currently using.

It's a bland box of a building built in the 1970s; it was considered to be so lacking in architectural merit that there was talk of listing it so that it could be preserved for posterity as an awful warning.

Is that your professional opinion?" "Yes." "Which as usual," said Seawoll, "is as about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

Sited a third of the way up Dartmouth Park Hill, it had obviously been designed by a keen admirer of Albert Speer, particularly his later work on the monumental fortifications of the Atlantic Wall.

As Martin noted, to the detectives conducting his interview, it was a good thing he'd been inebriated, because otherwise he would have wasted time screaming and running about - especially once he realized he was standing in a pool of blood. Instead, with the slow methodical patience of the drunk and terrified, Martin Turner dialed 999 and asked for the police.

He was from Yorkshire or somewhere like that and, like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy.

You let them watch the Fassbender again,' I said to Victor 'Didn't you?

The city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward.

All your cases, I thought, do not belong to us.

This is why you have procedure, training and drill, so that you do things when your brain is too shocked to think for itself – ask any soldier. I stepped outside into the daylight.