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121 " She was slender and dressed like an Edwardian maid, complete with a starched white bib apron over a full black skirt and white cotton blouse. Her face didn’t fit her outfit, being too long and sharp-boned, with black almond-shaped eyes. Despite her mob cap she wore her hair loose, a black curtain that fell to her waist. She instantly gave me the creeps and not just because I’ve seen too many Japanese horror films. "
― Ben Aaronovitch , Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)
122 " The bouncer scrutinized my face. “Do I know you?” he asked. No, I thought, but you might remember me from such Saturday-night hits as “Would you please put that punter down I’d like to arrest him,” “You can stop kicking him now, the ambulance has arrived,” and the classic “If you don’t back off right now I’m going to nick you as well. "
― Ben Aaronovitch , Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
123 " My milkshake brings all the gods to the yard. "
― Ben Aaronovitch , Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
124 " when the government decided that in the light of an increased security threat what London really needed was a smaller police force. "
― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)
125 " I offered her the flowers, which she took with a delightful laugh. She pulled my head down and kissed me on the cheek. She smelled of cigars and new car seats, horses and furniture polish, Stilton, Belgian chocolate and, behind it all, the hemp and the crowd and the last drop into oblivion.” (Tyburn) "
126 " I’m working on several theories,” I said. “But I’m currently favoring the hypothesis that the moon has a seemingly arbitrary effect on magic because it likes to piss me off.” “That’s a theory with a high degree of applicability to other spheres of life,” he said. “Yes it is,” I said, and we spontaneously fist "
127 " The rise and fall of Teresa Cornelys proves three things: that the wages of sin are high, that you should “just say no” to opera, and that it’s always wise to diversify your investment portfolio. "
128 " Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos. "
― Ben Aaronovitch , Whispers Under Ground (Rivers of London, #3)
129 " Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in. "
130 " I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks. "
― Ben Aaronovitch , The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London, #6)
131 " I don’t mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking—I’m bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please? "
132 " So magic is real,” I said. “Which makes you a … what?” “A wizard.” “Like Harry Potter?” Nightingale sighed. “No,” he said. “Not like Harry Potter.” “In what way?” “I’m not a fictional character,” said Nightingale. "
133 " People don't like to speak ill of the dead even when they're monsters, let alone when they're loved ones. People like to forget any bad things that someone did and why should they remember? "
134 " It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem. "
135 " Science doesn’t have all the answers, you know.” “It’s got all the best questions, though,” I said. "
136 " I didn’t tell him that it was all stored as binary information on rapidly spinning shiny discs, partly because I’d have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he’d understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else. "
― Ben Aaronovitch , Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
137 " One thing for certain, Abigail who lived up the road was going on my watch list. In fact I was going to create a watch list just so I could put Abigail at the top of it. "
138 " A London copper doesn't like to intrude upon a traveller camp with anything less than a van full of bodies in riot gear - it's considered disrespectful otherwise. "
139 " When I’m considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, “Who knows why the fuck anything happens? "
140 " Then he smiled at me and for that moment, and just that moment, I forgave him everything—everything—because now I knew what joy looked like and I was part of it. "