Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot Quotes

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.

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

I looked into the literature on this, " said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful.""There's a literature about this?""You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.

Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?''Yes, ' he said. 'But there's a catch.''What's the catch?''You get hunted down even unto the ends of the Earth and summarily executed.

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