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Quotes from Amongst our Weapons — Ben Aaronovitch

born 1964 England

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The trouble with turning a blind eye is that people often take the opportunity to punch you in the face.

Amongst our Weapons (2022)

“Desperate people do desperate things,” said Spencer-Talbot. “Perhaps if we all did more to make things less desperate, then perhaps there would be less violence.”

Amongst our Weapons (2022)

This is what’s known as operational flexibility, and definitely not making it up as you go along.

Amongst our Weapons (2022)

But this was the eighteenth century, when life was cheap and ambition unlimited.

Amongst our Weapons (2022)

None of those choices seemed likely, but if I’ve learned one thing on the job, it is that a coincidence can kill someone just as easily as malice.

Amongst our Weapons (2022)

I don’t like the fact that all we have so far is that somebody did something to somebody at some time which may or may not have some fucking connection so some other people who we’re not sure still exist.

Amongst our Weapons (2022)

Now I was used to it, the bell-like silence was louder than ever, and I was starting to get undertones of orange blossom and incense. You have to be careful with this stuff or you begin to sound like a wine taster—with about the same amount of meaningless bollocks.

Amongst our Weapons (2022)

Attribution

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