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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f52885d | gave us the traditional look of weary outrage that you always get from someone who thinks they don't have time for this shit-- | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 5ce5517 | 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 | ||
| 148a931 | The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide. I | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| f2f1b19 | Then Beverley Brook stepped onto the footplate and pointed a shotgun straight at the Queen's head - I recognised the Purdey from my trunk. It was nice to see it getting an airing. Beverley herself was wearing an oversized leather jerkin and jeans. Her dreads had been tied into a plait down her back and a pair of antique leather and brass goggles were pushed up onto her brow. | foxglove-summer funny peter-grant | Aaronovitch Ben | |
| f9a28cc | The laws of thermodynamics were very clear on the subject - all debts must be paid in full. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| ccf78a6 | 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 | ||
| 1d1fe55 | Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland. | humor peter-grant | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 5bfad46 | 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 | ||
| b353eb7 | 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 | ||
| e37544b | But as the wise man said, life's too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| b1dbca8 | I offered her the flowers, which she took with a delightful laugh. She pulled my head down and kissed me on the cheek. She smelled of cigars and new car seats, horses and furniture polish, Stilton, Belgian chocolate and , behind it all, the help and the crowd and the last drop into oblivion. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| f9043d7 | An argument," said Dr. Walid. "It's an argument of wizards." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 9f5a547 | I heard a woman scream with rage and frustration and then grunt like a tennis player. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| e4e2a16 | At the bottom of the box I found part of a map that had been ripped down its centrefold - a 1:40,000 scale depiction of a place called Ootacamund, which turned out on later research to be a British Hill Station in Tamil Nadu. A Hill Station being a place where colonial administrators and the like could use altitude to avoid the oppressive Indian summer heat, since the sensible solution, i.e. abandoning colonialism and moving back to Surrey,.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| c1777bd | It started at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, Street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo, tripped over a body in front of the West Portico of St. Paul's at Covent Garden. Martin, who was none too sober himself, at first thought the body was that of one of the many celebrants who had chosen the Piazza as a convenient outdoor toilet and dormitory. Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the bo.. | humor | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 3212530 | As Martin noted, to the detectives 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. Instead, with the slow methodical patience of the drunk and terrified, Martin Turner dialed 999 and asked for the police. | humor | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| bfa5148 | Will you be all right driving in this snow?" She found that hilarious. "This is not snow," she said. "Where I'm from, you know, you have snow when you can't find your car the next morning." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 6b93f78 | Most people react this way when I tell them about the Nazis. Would it be more or less comforting if we could attribute that particular part of our history to the supernatural? | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 5183d1e | Surely we need to at least identify who they are?" I'd asked the Director the same thing once. "To what end?" she'd asked me, and now I asked Vanessa the same. "In case they're a problem," she said, which was pretty much what I'd said. The Director had slammed her fist on her desk hard enough to break her coffee cup. "And then what?" she'd asked. "We keep files on them? Or why not make it simple and require them to carry papers or perhaps s.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| d537753 | Because were were both probationary constables, an experienced PC had been left to supervise us - a responsibility he diligently pursued from an all-night cafe on St. Martin's Close. | sarcasm | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 3aab8fe | She was staring at us over the top of a pair of completely pointless sunglasses and her phone was playing what I now recognised as The Day the World Turned Day-Glo by X-Ray Specs. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 686feda | 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 | ||
| 7e30898 | It's not like me and Lesley are inconspicuous,' I'd said. Nightingale had winced, as he always does, at my incorrect use of the accusative pronoun but I think I'm beginning to wear him down. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 122349b | 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 | ||
| 9c38bb9 | He was sure that police box hadn't been there before. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 4c208d8 | Das Leben ist zu kurz, um schlechten Wein zu trinken. - Quoted from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | inspirational | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| d7311b8 | CO19, the Met's firearms unit, whose unofficial motto is, "Guns don't kill people, we kill people with guns." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 325cf65 | Gaston was a short, bulky man in his late fifties who favoured tight jeans, studded belts and sleeveless T-shirts, the better to show off the tattoos on his own arms. Only the absence of a mullet or a purple Mohican saved him from a breach of the EU directive against egregious cliche embodiment. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 509d7b6 | Oxley had something called a Brewdog Vagabond Pale Ale, which came in a bottle and which he claimed never to have tasted before. 'I'm trying new things,' he said. Including a new suit in khaki chambray that had either been tailored deliberately baggy or had once belonged to someone else. Isis was similarly smartly turned out in a burgundy floor-length dress and matching jacket with cream buttons. I did mention that the opera had got a lot m.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| a94bd5b | says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 5cbaac9 | We did a joint evaluation of video evidence encompassing all possible access points in conjunction with BTP and CLP, and despite widening the parameters of our assessment to include registered and nonregistered cameras in the high probability zones, we have as yet to achieve a positive identification of James Gallagher prior to his appearance at Baker Street" becomes: "We've checked every CCTV camera in the system and it's as if the fucker .. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| ece5d3b | I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances that were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs office, m'lord." Leave the police alone in a room for five minutes and we start looking in drawers, locked or otherwise. It's a terrible habit." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 6d01773 | Speak, friend, and enter, | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| b1fdf96 | from the individual infantryman's point of view there really is no such thing as too much personal firepower. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 740bc42 | Absence of evidence, as any good archeologist will tell you, is not the same as evidence of absence | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| f8b0653 | ipecac syrup of happiness. There Lowell would be. With Harlow. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| bad0ba3 | the world runs on the fuel of an endless, fathomless animal misery. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 7879a9d | solipsism. According to solipsism, reality exists only inside | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 06204d2 | So this is what I said to Mom; this is what I meant to say - That there was something inside Fern I didn't know. That I didn't know her in the way I'd always thought I did. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 7f8c3ee | An election year in the U.S., as if you needed to be reminded, the vituperative tunes of the Ayn Rand Marching Band bleating from the airwaves. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 7fdcde4 | Yes, it is. I'm leaving the marriage, I'm not leaving you. As long as you're in the house, I'll take care of the house." "Fuck off," said Sylvia." | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 1af9740 | WHERE YOU SUCCEED will never matter so much as where you fail," I said." | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 179e3d7 | The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look." They" -- | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| cfaf107 | We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies. | Karen Joy Fowler |