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Slow Horses (Slough House, #1) QUOTES

Slow Horses (Slough House, #1) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " 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)

3 " 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)

4 " From its outside wall half a luggage trolley protruded: platform 93/4 was where the Hogwarts Express docked. "

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

5 " He and I, we're friends. Does that sound odd? Me, friends with a pinko journalist?'
Nothing sounded odd to Lamb; except, perhaps, that people had friends. "

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

6 " How's your career looking?'
'Well, I don't have an arse two inches in front of my nose, so my view beats yours. "

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

7 " Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture. "

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

8 " This was the blissful break when the world seemed a safer place, between the end of the Cold War and about ten minutes later. "

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

9 " But the first bedtime story he ever did read me was Kim.' River could tell she recognised the title, so didn't elaborate. 'After that, well, Conrad, Greene. Somerset Maugham.'
'Ashenden.'
'You get the picture. For my twelfth birthday, he bought me le Carré's collected works. I can still remember what he said about them.'
They're made up. But that doesn't mean they're not true. "

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

10 " He has the people skills of a natterjack toad, but he knows his way round the ether. "

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

11 " Fear lives in the guts. That’s where it makes its home. It moves in, shifts stuff around; empties a space for itself—it likes the echoes its wingbeats make. It likes the smell of its own farts. "

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

12 " Why am I telling you this?'
'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?'
'That's probably it. "

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

13 " And even if she does, she might end up with the life choices of a carrot. "

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

14 " ​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses. "

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

15 " That was the true purpose of Slough House. It was a way of losing people without having to get rid of them, sidestepping legal hassle and tribunal threats. "

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

16 " Things aren’t always black and white, River. A wise man once said he wouldn’t trust anyone who hadn’t been a radical in his youth, and Communism was the radicalism of choice back then. "

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

17 " there was nobody to tell her she was lovely any more, and it was doubtful they’d say so if there were. The scary moments had won. Which sounded like a definition of ageing, to Catherine. The scary moments had won. "

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

18 " He still read copy as if it were Braille; bumps in the language letting him know when "

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

19 " Smoking was almost as good a guarantor of privacy as fake birdshit. Though give it another year or two, and it would probably be an arrestable offence. "

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

20 " Everyone wanted a life less ordinary. And only a tiny minority ever got it, and even they probably didn’t appreciate it much. "

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