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Mick Herron QUOTES

1 " Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control "

― Mick Herron , Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

2 " 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. "

― Mick Herron , Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3)

3 " So she was waiting for the lecture; prolonged silence always led to the lecture. It was the last thing Sarah needed, and a list of the first things would have filled a book: a hug, a bath, an ear, some sympathy. "

― Mick Herron , Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

4 " 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. "

― Mick Herron , London Rules (Slough House, #5)

5 " Lamb said, ‘If you had issues with him, I could have spoken to HR. Arranged an intervention.’ He tapped Moody’s shoulder with his foot. ‘Breaking his neck without going through your line manager, that shit stays on your record. "

― Mick Herron , Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

6 " It turned out that in the governance of a nation’s security, many absurd situations had to be worked around: a toxic clown in the Foreign Office [Boris Johnson], a state visit by a narcissistic bed-wetter [Trump], the tendency of the electorate to jump off' the occasional cliff [Brexit]. "

― Mick Herron , Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

7 " Conspiracy theorists, she knew, were paranoid by definition, and usually with good reason – they were indeed being watched, largely because they were standing on an upturned bucket, haranguing the sheeple about their wingnut delusions. "

― Mick Herron , Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

8 " For months the previous year she had monitored message boards for suggestions of terrorist activity, and while she'd never entirely thrown off the suspicion that every other poster she encountered was an undercover cop, she'd grown used to eavesdropping on tin-hat conversations, from how the government was controlling the weather to the thought-experiments carried out on anyone who rang HMRC helplines. And all of these philosophers, without exception, were convinced they were under surveillance, their every online foray or mobile chat recorded and stored for future use. That this was probably true was an irrelevance, of course; they were simply caught in the same net as everyone else. Louisa had never trapped a terrorist; never stopped a bomb. She'd read it lot of discussions about 9/11, obviously, but contributions from structural engineers had been conspicuous by their absence. And while the helpline thing wag probably true, that was just the law of averages at work. "

― Mick Herron , Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

9 " It made little sense — the bad thing had already happened. Still, he felt as if he'd been diagnosed with a condition that was serious and complicated, but about which he remembered nothing. "

― Mick Herron , Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

10 " Such observations came naturally to Judd, who could no more look at a woman without assessing her bedability than he could see a microphone without minting a soundbite. She smiled—she had recognised him, of course—then replaced the bottle in its bucket and moved away. He'd leave a decent tip, and get her number. He was supposed to be behaving himself, for reasons of marital harmony, but a waitress hardly counted, for God's sake. "

― Mick Herron , Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

11 " Rumpus" was a favourite PJ-word; one he'd employed to describe a recent tabloid splash about his friendship with a lap dancer. It was also a term he'd used in reference to both 9/11 and the global recession. "

― Mick Herron , Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

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

― Mick Herron , London Rules (Slough House, #5)

13 " Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none. "

― Mick Herron , Slough House (Slough House, #7)

14 " all the work’s done low on the food chain. Everyone else just has meetings. "

― Mick Herron , Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

15 " a thought she'd once had about Lamb was that when they'd pulled the Wall down he'd built himself another, and had been living behind it ever since "

― Mick Herron , Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

16 " Catherine said, "There's something I don't get."

Ho waited.

"You're telling us you've got friends? "

― Mick Herron , Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

17 " No sober day is wasted.
A familiar thought―it was a bedtime mantra, a grace note on which to end her days. No sober day is wasted, meaning that whatever else she'd done or failed to do on any given day, there was always this achievement to reflect on in the violet hour. "

― Mick Herron , Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

18 " 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. "

― Mick Herron , Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

19 " ...he couldn’t help wondering how it had felt: refugees turning up from concentration camps, from a broken Europe, to find this bleak estate; its squat huts their new homes. There’d been watch towers and barbed wire fences. It can’t have looked like freedom. But freedom was measured, he supposed, by what you were leaving behind. "

― Mick Herron , Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

20 " God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979? "

― Mick Herron , Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)