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Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

born 1964 England

Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter.

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I found that if you voluntarily take on a chore somebody else doesn’t want to do, they don’t check the results too closely—in case they have to do it again themselves.

Lies Sleeping (2018)

After a slow start the police have taken to mobile technology in a big way—mainly because it means you can pretend to work anywhere: at home, the canteen, the local boozer.

The Hanging Tree (2016)

A lot of people have died in the Underground, through accidents, stupidity, or suicide. All the one-unders whose dying wish had been to make other people late for work.

Whispers Under Ground (2012)

“Nice,” said Abigail. “Very plausible.”
“Yeah, but just because it’s plausible doesn’t mean it’s true.”

The Furthest Station (2017)

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. —Anonymous

False Value (2020)

Ghosts, I was thinking, memories—I wasn’t sure there was a difference.

Moon Over Soho (2011)

I looked at Lesley—surely nobody could really be that stupid? She shrugged. Lesley has a much lower opinion of humanity than I do.

Whispers Under Ground (2012)

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

Moon Over Soho (2011)

Been there, I thought, done that, read The Silmarillion.

False Value (2020)

God, money is so wasted on the rich.

The Hanging Tree (2016)

“Not your type?”
“I’m strictly a case by case kind of guy. But if I had a type it wouldn’t be him.”

False Value (2020)

There were screams and yells from the street below as people saw what was happening. There would be lots of phone-camera footage on the news that night from people with more media-savvy than brains.

Moon Over Soho (2011)

My hand was shaking a little and the pin proved harder to pull than I expected—I guess that’s a safety feature on a grenade.

Rivers of London (2011)

I’m sorry, I couldn’t find “a good song” in your music. —Siri

False Value (2020)

I didn’t dare ask because we have an unspoken agreement—I don’t question what she does on my computer when I’m out and, in return, she doesn’t murder me in my sleep.

The Furthest Station (2017)

Here the bland 1930s art deco stylings of the station gave way to the horror that was the 1980s where every public building was deliberately crafted to look as much like a urinal as possible.

The Furthest Station (2017)

The police can live with looking corrupt, bullying, or tyrannical, but looking stupid is intolerable. It has a tendency to undermine public faith in the forces of Law and is deleterious to public order.

Moon Over Soho (2011)

Miss Karmargi who’d been my Religious Education teacher at school. An avowed atheist who’d once said that she respected all religions equally—“which is more than can be said for most religions,” she’d added.

False Value (2020)

Or my gut was wrong.
Confirmation bias has put more innocent people in prison than malice.

The Furthest Station (2017)

Gaston did betray an abstracted quality that might have been the result of magic. But was more likely down to consuming, I suspected, a tremendous amount of recreational chemicals.

The October Man (2019)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ben Aaronovitch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.