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1 " I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions. "
― Ben Aaronovitch , Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
2 " He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along. "
3 " This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them. "
4 " I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them. "
5 " The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience. "
6 " Dedication This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour. "
7 " From then on, it was even twistier B-roads through a country so photgenically rural that I half expected to meet Bilbo Baggins around the next corner - providing he'd taken to driving a Nissan Micra. "
8 " I took the swab using the collection kit that I’d borrowed from Dominic who, I realized, had left the Boy Scout scale behind and was now verging on Batman levels of crazy preparedness. "
9 " The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I've got a big stick. "
10 " There are people who have been touched by, let’s call it for the sake of argument, magic to the point where they’re no longer entirely people even under human rights legislation. Nightingale calls them the fae but that’s a catch-all term like the way the Greeks used the word “barbarian” or the Daily Mail uses “Europe. "
11 " In some households you only have to turn up three times before you’re expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard. "
12 " Rule of policing number one – when something good falls into your lap, pass it up the chain of command as quickly as possible before something else bad can happen. "
13 " There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along. "
14 " Carnivorous unicorns, I thought. "
15 " Whatever was in the sandwiches, you didn’t want them getting too warm and going off, or starting to smell, or spontaneously mutating into a new life form. "
16 " My milkshake brings all the gods to the yard. "
17 " 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 "
18 " Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar. "
19 " Dominic tooled up five minutes later in a ten-year-old Nissan pickup truck that had been painted a non-standard khaki, dipped in dried mud up to the wheel arches and then randomly smacked with a sledgehammer to give it that Somali Technical look. I found myself checking to see if there was a mount for a fifty-caliber machine gun in the back. "
20 " If you ask any copper why they stick at a job which exposes them to abuse from everyone from petty criminals all the way down to government ministers, they’ll say it’s the variety. "
