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Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7) QUOTES

Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7) QUOTES

1 " Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

2 " The kitchen was the kind of brushed steel monstrosity that looks more like it's designed to weaponise viruses than cook dinner. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

3 " The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse [...] stuck in my mind because of the subject's flagrant health and safety violation. As any competent practitioner will tell you, you always complete your protective circle *before* you start your workings. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

4 " 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)

5 " Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

6 " Most archaeology in London these days is rescue archaeology – projects designed to preserve as much as possible from the relentless cash-driven redevelopment. It’s not a new problem. Ask a medievalist about Victorian cellars or an Iron Age specialist about medieval ploughing – but take snacks, because you’re going to be there for a while. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

7 " When you arrive unexpectedly at someone’s house you go in through the front door, often after making sure you’ve got a couple of mates waiting round the back. For a business, especially the kind that involves big trucks and heavy metal, it’s always better to go in through the back. The customer-facing part of any modern business is purposely designed to be as politely unhelpful as possible. If you go in from the rear, the customer-facing staff are all facing the wrong way and everybody starts their conversation on the back foot. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

8 " We seem to be sitting around waiting for the next fucking disaster." he said, which went into the official log as - DCI Seawoll felt that our operational posture was too reactive. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

9 " When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

10 " Cicero wouldn’t approve of my writing style, but at least I pronounce his name with a hard C. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

11 " Even in the 1980s your average young archaeologist would have had difficulty raising capital for a house. I knew this because it’s one of the things archaeologists will tell you about, at length, at the slightest provocation. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

12 " I nodded absently as I made a note of the pub. The Rising Sun drinking establishment exists right on the fringes of the demi-monde – not being nearly as antique or mysterious as it pretends to be. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

13 " I sighed and went back to my book, in which Morgoth nicked the eponymous jewels and had away with them back to Angbad. Sorry mate, I thought, not my jurisdiction. Did you have them insured? Whereupon Fëanor gets a crime number and a leaflet about being on guard against theft and the wiles of the personification of evil. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

14 " The house had probably cost a couple of million quid, with its two stories plus loft conversion, red brick, and detailing on the porch roof that hinted at Arts and Crafts without actually making it over the finishing line. It was at least mercifully free of pebble-dash and fake half-timbering. They’d retained the original sash windows but installed the venetian blinds that have replaced net curtains as the genteel response to sharing your neighborhood with other human beings. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

15 " I asked whether the High Fae came into the pub. Lulu gave me a crooked smile. “High Fae?” she asked. “You know. The gentry, elves, those posh gits with extradimensional castles, stone spears and unicorns.” “You mean them what step between worlds?” “Could be.” “Who walk on paths unseen and wax and wane with the moon?” “Them sort of people,” I said. “Yeah.” “Not in here, squire,” she said. “I run a respectable pub. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

16 " Normally the police like to turn up nice and early, preferably around 6 a.m., because not only are people liable to be actually at home but that early in the morning they’re rarely playing with a full deck. Today we were going in Sunday lunchtime because we weren’t looking for shock and awe but aiming for sinister and creepy instead. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

17 " To them, fae basically meant anyone who was vaguely magical who hadn’t gone to the right school, with the High Fae being the creatures referenced in medieval literature who dwelled in their own castles with a proper feudal set-up and an inexplicable need to marry virtuous Christian knights. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

18 " Tolkien and my dad had weirdly convergent ideas about the musical nature of the universe, although my dad would probably have been more forgiving of Melkor’s improvisation. You know, providing it didn’t step on his solo. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

19 " never run a game of Hide the Lady if you can’t remember where you’ve put the queen, because some people embrace forensic accounting as a blood sport. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

20 " I’d been warned in advance, so I’d given it some thought. When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)