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Quotes from Broken Homes — Ben Aaronovitch

born 1964 England

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9 quotes

It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

Broken Homes (2013)

Keeping a secret always makes the police suspicious. And while we’re willing to believe in the possibility of a totally innocent explanation, we never think that’s the way to bet.

Broken Homes (2013)

Technically, you don't have to have a corpse to convict for murder but detectives always feel better when they've found your actual victim—they're superstitious like that.

Broken Homes (2013)

You don’t get to be a senior investigating officer unless you have a degree in skepticism, an MA in distrust and your CV lists suspicious bastard under your hobbies.

Broken Homes (2013)

We did not tell him we were witch hunting, as that sort of thing tends to cause alarm.

Broken Homes (2013)

Charing Cross Road was once the bookselling heart of London and disreputable enough to avoid the multinational chains in their unceasing quest to turn every street of every city into a clone of every other.

Broken Homes (2013)

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It’s not your garden, it’s not a park—it’s a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer’s plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

Broken Homes (2013)

I didn’t bother calling Nightingale on the mobile I’d got him for Christmas because he only turns it on when he wants to call someone—the new technology being strictly there for his convenience, not anybody else’s.

Broken Homes (2013)

The narrow hallway was lined with framed photographs while the far end was dominated by a faux movie poster for Gone with the Wind starring Ronald Reagan sweeping Margaret Thatcher off her feet while a mushroom cloud bloomed behind them. She promised to follow him to the end of the world. He promised to organize it.

Broken Homes (2013)

Attribution

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