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Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9) QUOTES

Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9) QUOTES

1 " I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

2 " Exurge domine et judica causum tuam,’ said Nightingale. ‘“Arise, O God, judge thy own cause.”’ ‘Psalm 73,’ said Postmartin. ‘The motto of the Spanish Inquisition.’ ‘Well, fuck me,’ said Seawoll. ‘I wasn’t expecting them. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

3 " Then you check for paraphernalia, always bearing in mind that the line between cosplay, magic practice, and niche sex play can get pretty blurry. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

4 " and part of a successful relationship is learning to live with your beloved’s questionable taste. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

5 " Whoever had converted the warehouse into offices and flats had obviously done it back in the carefree sixties, when lifts were for wimps and people with disabilities hadn’t been invented. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

6 " It never seemed to occur to Heather that Francisca might be a refugee from the dim and distant past—not even when she fainted at her first sight of an airliner. I’d have sussed it on the first day—which just goes to show why more science fiction should be included in the National Curriculum. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

7 " and I gave him the police stare. The aim of the stare is to convey cynicism combined with weary patience. I know you’re about to lie to me but because I am a hugely magnanimous agent of state power, I’m willing to give you a moment to think better of it. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

8 " Then there were the angels composed of interlocking wheels covered in sparkling eyes, and the seraphim who had six wings and spent their days circling God’s throne, bigging him up through song. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

9 " That’s the zeitgeist, isn’t it?” I said. “Back in medieval times she would have described it as an angel or a devil or a fairy. Nowadays everything is aliens. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

10 " Now I was used to it, the bell-like silence was louder than ever, and I was starting to get undertones of orange blossom and incense. You have to be careful with this stuff or you begin to sound like a wine taster—with about the same amount of meaningless bollocks. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

11 " Psalm 73,” said Postmartin. “The motto of the Spanish Inquisition.” “Well, fuck me,” said Seawoll. “I wasn’t expecting them. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

12 " Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

13 " we collected a representative sample of phones, cameras, and laptops from the SOCOs. Or, more precisely, we pried them out of their reluctant fingers by promising that everything that needed logging or signing would be logged and signed, and that the chain of custody would be maintained yea, even unto the end of days, or the first court appearance—whichever came first. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

14 " The original Society of the Wise, which was your actual official name for the Folly, had been proudly part of the Enlightenment. God, if he existed, was the ultimate master craftsman who had set the world in motion, with fixed immutable laws, and then left it to get on with things. They saw angels and devils as abstract concepts and held that anything wandering around with a halo, wings, or a pitchfork was either an uppity fae, a con man, or a mountebank. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

15 " It was a poem of volume and geometry without humanity—a little bit of Swiss megalomania come to the North. As Bev says, I have views about the International Style. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

16 " Yes,” I said, because you can’t show weakness to posh people or they’ll mercilessly take advantage. I think it’s something they learn at school in between conversational French and practical condescension. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

17 " What do you see when you look at me like that?” she asked. I didn’t have a good answer, so I went for honesty instead. “I don’t know,” I said. “Everything. That’s what I see—everything.” “You think I’m that huge, then?” she said. “I am woman, I contain multitudes. All shall look upon me and despair.” “Shall I compare thee to a giant squid,” I said. “Thou art more lovely and less tentacled. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

18 " Obviously the city had been feeling its oats at the end of the eighteenth century and, between all those displaced agricultural workers in the mills and the slaves on the plantations in the Caribbean, it had money to burn. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

19 " This was all news to us lower ranks who, while we’d theoretically known Seawoll had parents, had always assumed that he’d been assembled in a factory somewhere outside Wakefield. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

20 " But there’s a kind of freedom that comes with official neglect, especially if you’re someone who’s usually the subject of official disdain. So to the Folly came Jews and Nonconformists, foreigners, and criminals and, of course, women. "

― Ben Aaronovitch , Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)