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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 746e1de | So magic is real,' I said. 'Which makes you a ... what?' 'A wizard.' 'Like Harry Potter?' Nightingale sighed. 'No,' he said, 'not like Harry Potter.' 'In what way?' 'I'm not a fictional character,' said Nightingale. | humur | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 9a44d16 | Why would a young man like you be interested in history? | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 89b9629 | There's nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| aaccfc1 | Are there rules?' | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 54510f5 | That's how real men settle their differences, through reasoned discussion and a dispassionate analysis. He farted as I reached the inner door, a sign, I decided, of his respect. Alexander | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 1649d16 | You do magic by learning formae which are like shapes in your mind that have an effect on the physical universe. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| eff46ca | Taking a statement from anyone can be a long process on account of the fact that your average member of the public wouldn't know the truth if it donned a pink tutu and danced in front of them singing the Chicken Song. This | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 519d22e | her hair was piled up under a broad-brimmed | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 226561d | She was spontaneously created by the midichlorians,' I said. Both women gave me blank looks. 'Never mind. | humor jokes peter-grant star-wars star-wars-reference | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 962fc81 | Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you're a Londoner, is that it's better not to die at all. | londoner | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 24e94a7 | 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 | ||
| b0b8ae5 | most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. A mob will tear an individual to pieces and a man with a gun and a noble cause is happy to kill ever so many women and children, but risking a fair fight--not so easy. That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 0fb9991 | Da, etogo cheloveka iavno obuchal professional, -- nakhmurilsia Naitingeil. -- Vy sebe predstavliaete, skol'ko let nuzhno trenirovat'sia, chtoby dostich' takogo urovnia? Kakaia nuzhna tseleustremlennost', kakaia trebovatel'nost' k sebe? Vy tol'ko chto stolknulis' s odnim iz samykh opasnykh liudei v mire. -- Vnezapno pokhlopav menia po plechu, on dobavil: -- I ostalis' zhivy. Net, eto prosto porazitel'no. Na mig ia ispugalsia, chto on sobira.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 867ee8c | Fenians, | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| a6dba8c | Desde que la humanidad dejo de vagar sin rumbo y empezo a cultivar su propia comida, la sociedad se ha vuelto mas complicada. En cuanto dejamos de acostarnos con nuestras primas y construimos paredes, templos y unas pocas discotecas decentes, la sociedad se volvio demasiado compleja como para que una sola persona pudiera abarcarla, y asi nacio la burocracia. La burocracia fragmenta la complejidad y la incorpora a una serie de sistemas inter.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| a83b009 | which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 2740998 | This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly, sucks to be you, quadruped. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| a0a1c59 | So into the woods we went--it was surprisingly noisy. Especially one loud bird whose chirping sounded far too cheerful for the middle of the night. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 122328a | Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. ... That's why you see those young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back." | humor paranormal-thriller series urban-fantasy | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 513ae99 | Once the telephone had been invented, it was only a matter of time before the police got in on the new technology and, first in Glasgow and then in London, the police box was born. Here a police officer in need of assistance could find a telephone link to Scotland Yard, a dry space to do 'paperwork' and, in certain extreme cases, a life of adventure through space and time. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| eedd538 | Did he just ask us to lie to a senior officer?" I asked. "Yup," said Leslie. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 1557884 | As Martin noted, to the detective conducting his interview, it was a good thing he'd been inebriated, because otherwise he would have wasted time screaming and running about- especially once he realized he was standing in a pool of blood. | drunk | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| ac12d49 | Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on the Metaphysical by John 'never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like' Cartwright. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 508c6e9 | You'll need lots of chips to go with that lot." "And salt too, ha ha." "Ha ha." "We aren't going around to other shops buying up all their vinegar, are we?" "No, now we need some plastic buckets." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| ae60b35 | Class-war evil supernatural black fungus. I love it. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 24696a4 | Round and round and round we go and where we stop nobody knows. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 91e1361 | At this very moment astronomers are detecting planets around distant stars by measuring how much their orbits wobble and the clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop. The story of how we measure the physical universe is the history of science itself. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| d28ef63 | NOBODY LIKES a riot except looters and journalists. The Metropolitan Police, being the go-ahead and dynamic modern police service that it is, has any number of contingency plans for dealing with civil disturbance. From farmers with truckloads of manure to suburban anarchists on a weekend break and Saturday jihadists. What I suspect they didn't have plans for was just over two thousand enraged opera lovers pouring out of the Royal Opera Hous.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| f5e26d9 | That's the nature of the beast," said Zach. "We are what we are." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 78c7893 | Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 16df997 | Cum te mai simti? a intrebat el. -- Uman, am zis. -- E suficient, a spus. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| c9b65c8 | M-am holbat la el. Nu credeam in fantome sau zane sau zei, iar in ultimele cateva zile eram ca un om care privea la un spectacol de magie - ma asteptam ca un magician sa paseasca din spatele unei cortine si sa imi ceara sa aleg o carte, oricare. Nu eram pregatit sa cred in fantome, insa asta e chestia cu experinta empirica - e realitatea. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 4a42138 | In camera era de asemenea si Zeita Raului Tamisa. Statea tronand pe unul dintre cele mai bune scaune executive de birou. Parul ii era impletit, cu suvite de bumbac alb si tapat cu aur, incat ii venea ca o coroana deasupra fruntii. Chipul ii era rotund si fara riduri, pielea fina si perfecta ca a unui copil, buzele pline si foarte intunecate. Avea aceiasi ochi alungiti ca de pisica precum cei ai lui Beverley (...). "Pe masura ce m-am apropia.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 69a35a3 | five story Georgian terrace whose elegant proportions would have caused the most hardened Canadian property developer's soul to weep to see such beauty--just prior to having the place gutted and filled with the latest in personality-free interior design. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| dab0ec0 | Sa pastrez pacea Reginei. Sa aduc ordine in haos. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 4f06a46 | Vrei sa fii vrajitor, a zis. -- Nu stiu. -- Mincinosule. Vrei sa-i fii ucenic si sa inveti magia si sa calaresti pe o matura. -- Nu prea cred ca vrajitorii adevarati calaresc maturi. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 71fa8a1 | Do you know what happened to the last police officer who made a joke about DS Stephanopoulos?" "No, what did happen to him?" "Nobody else knows either" | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 18e30dd | Ati pus o vraja pe caine, am spus dupa ce am plecat. - Doar una mica, a zis Nightingale. - Deci magia e reala, am zis. Ceea ce va face sa fiti...ce, mai exact? - Un vrajitor. - Ca Harry Potter? Nightingale a oftat. - Nu, a spus, nu ca Harry Potter. - In ce fel? - Nu sunt un personaj fictiv, a spus Nightingale. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 4cb6c97 | Daca ti se pare ca acum esti in conflict cu tine insati, am spus, gandeste-te cum o sa fie dupa ce Nightingale o sa afle ca m-ai papat la cina. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| bb0ffca | THE METROPOLITAN Police has a very straightforward approach to murder investigations. Not for them the detective's gut instinct or the intricate logical deductions of the sleuth savant. No, what the Met likes to do is throw a shitload of manpower at the problem and run down every single possible lead until it is exhausted, the murderer is caught, or the senior investigating officer dies of old age. As a result, murder investigations are con.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 906f458 | we hit the Rotunda and we did a quick spin around the Museum of London and into the bit of Little Britain that runs beside Postman's Park. The trees in the park still had most of their leaves, and the street was narrow and shaded and smelled of wet grass rather than the busy cement smell you get in the rest of the City. The office was based in a Mid-Victorian pile whose Florentine flourishes were not fooling anyone but itself. There was a b.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 3da29ee | He said it was wife's idea to name their daughter after him but I didn't believe him. Could have been worse, I decided. It could have been Nigella. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| ed7594e | 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 n.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| e1a565a | I listened to make sure she wasn't coming up the stairs and had a poke through the underwear drawers but got nothing except a vague sense of being really unprofessional. | Ben Aaronovitch |