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Peter Grant,' I said. 'Recent arrival, slacker and man of very little fame. — Ben Aaronovitch

Boss,' I said into my Airwave. 'It's getting needlessly metaphysical out here. — Ben Aaronovitch

For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal. — Ben Aaronovitch

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along. — Ben Aaronovitch

I did feel a 'something', like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation. — Ben Aaronovitch

Sinister is Latin for 'left', making it the sort of enjoyable schoolboy pun that is such an advert for mixed-gender education. — Ben Aaronovitch

The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper. — Ben Aaronovitch

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

My milkshake brings all the gods to the yard. — Ben Aaronovitch

Street towards Covent Garden. There was — Ben Aaronovitch

Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation. — Ben Aaronovitch

Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar. — Ben Aaronovitch

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile. — Ben Aaronovitch

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. — Ben Aaronovitch

Vikings," said Lesley. "Precisely," said Nightingale. "Bloodthirsty, but surprisingly erudite in a limited fashion." Well — Ben Aaronovitch

NIGHTINGALE AND I did what all good coppers do when faced with a spare moment in the middle of the day - we went looking for a pub. — Ben Aaronovitch

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework. — Ben Aaronovitch

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence. — Ben Aaronovitch

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name. — Ben Aaronovitch

I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. — Ben Aaronovitch

You have to call me Master." "Master?" "That's the tradition," said Nightingale. I said the word in my head and it kept on coming out massa. — Ben Aaronovitch

As Conan the Barbarian famously said, That which does not kill us does not kill us. — Ben Aaronovitch

I saw a dark void under the platform and had just enough time to think: Fuck me he's a earthbender. — Ben Aaronovitch

Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic. — Ben Aaronovitch

Ethically challenged magical practitioners," I said. — Ben Aaronovitch

her hair was piled up under a broad-brimmed — Ben Aaronovitch

The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I've got a big stick. — Ben Aaronovitch

I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting".
"Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing? — Ben Aaronovitch

It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater, — Ben Aaronovitch

Carnivorous unicorns, I thought. — Ben Aaronovitch

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind. — Ben Aaronovitch

A major investigation, once it gets underway, is as exciting as watching reruns of Big Brother, although possibly involving less sex and violence. — Ben Aaronovitch

The evening was still warm enough for shirtsleeves, and the city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward. — Ben Aaronovitch

The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide. — Ben Aaronovitch

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call. — Ben Aaronovitch

Don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that. — Ben Aaronovitch

It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life. — Ben Aaronovitch

The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke. — Ben Aaronovitch

History happens," said the Doctor. "Even when I'm not around."

"Only by accident," said Kadiatu... — Ben Aaronovitch

Dr Walid walked me past the security at reception and introduced me to today's dead body. — Ben Aaronovitch

It's strictly constables, sergeants, and lunatics. We'll keep the kettle on for you. — Ben Aaronovitch

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold. — Ben Aaronovitch

Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard. — Ben Aaronovitch

So, actions were still being actioned and me and Guleed were actioning them, and the wheels of justice ground on. Albeit in first gear. So — Ben Aaronovitch

Zach looked at Carey in consternation, obviously wondering if we were using the rare good cop/loony cop interrogation technique. — Ben Aaronovitch

Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos. — Ben Aaronovitch

The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions. That — Ben Aaronovitch

The Fire Brigade recognise only two kinds of people at a fire, victims and obstacles, and if you don't want to be either it's best to stay back. — Ben Aaronovitch

Bollocks, I thought, or testiculi or possibly testiculos if we were using the accusative. — Ben Aaronovitch

With a grunt he levered himself to his feet, causing the chair to bang against the bookcase behind him and set the various objet d'bollocks rattling. — Ben Aaronovitch

Richmond won on points, but only because one of them had a flask full of coffee. — Ben Aaronovitch

Pictures of Cheam adorn the walls of planning offices of every Home County to serve as an awful warning. — Ben Aaronovitch

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it. — Ben Aaronovitch

I think becoming a wizard is about discovering what's real and what isn't. — Ben Aaronovitch

insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about — Ben Aaronovitch

Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook recommends the ABC of serious investigation: Assume nothing, Believe nothing, and Check everything. — Ben Aaronovitch

A romantic," said Nightingale much, much later. "The most dangerous people on Earth. — Ben Aaronovitch

The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end. — Ben Aaronovitch

There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along. — Ben Aaronovitch

If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet. — Ben Aaronovitch

There's more to life than just London," said Nightingale.
"People keep saying that," I said. "But I've never actually seen any proof. — Ben Aaronovitch

Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored. — Ben Aaronovitch

He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy. — Ben Aaronovitch

I left in a hurry before he could change his mind, but I want to make it clear that at no point did I break into a skip — Ben Aaronovitch

That's because they don't know,' said Tyburn. 'It's like economics. Everybody's got a theory, and some people make it their religion. — Ben Aaronovitch

Ghosts, I was thinking, memories - I wasn't sure there was a difference. — Ben Aaronovitch

Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge," said Stephanopoulos. "He was a student at St. Martins College. — Ben Aaronovitch

I'd found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London. — Ben Aaronovitch

One of the first rules of police work is that trouble will always come looking for you, so there's no point looking for it. — Ben Aaronovitch

Zap,' I said. 'That's the technical term for it, is it? What do you call someone who's been zapped?'

'Mr. Crispy,' said Kumar. — Ben Aaronovitch

Whatever you see, he'd said, take as long a look as you need to get used to it, to accept it, and then move on as if nothing has changed. — Ben Aaronovitch

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop — Ben Aaronovitch

Keep breathing,' I said. 'It's a habit you don't want to break. — Ben Aaronovitch

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire. — Ben Aaronovitch

The designer had probably been going for Turkish Bath but had hit Czech Porn Shoot instead. — Ben Aaronovitch

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

Jazz vampires,' said Stephanopoulos.
'I wish I hadn't started calling them that,' I said. — Ben Aaronovitch

He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way. — Ben Aaronovitch

You do magic by learning formae which are like shapes in your mind that have an effect on the physical universe. — Ben Aaronovitch

Oh shit, I thought, if this isn't the Low King of the Dwarves then I'm the President of the Cricklewood Branch of the Women's Institute. — Ben Aaronovitch

Officially she was there to liaise with me on the case, but really she was there for the wide-screen TV, takeaways and the unresolved sexual tension. — Ben Aaronovitch

He was transparent, the way holograms in films are transparent.Three dimensional, definitely really there and fucking ... transparent. — Ben Aaronovitch

This is your brain on magic. — Ben Aaronovitch

I, Anna Maria de Burgh Coppinger Isis solemnly swear on — Ben Aaronovitch

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre. — Ben Aaronovitch