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I’ve always believed that my dad is right about one thing—your life is your solo and whatever song you choose to sing you only get to do it once.

— Ben Aaronovitch The Furthest Station (2017)

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More quotes by Ben Aaronovitch

Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.

Whispers Under Ground (2012)

Anyone who’s taken statements from multiple witnesses to the same event will know how malleable memory is.

Lies Sleeping (2018)

Nothing attracts the powerful quite like more power.

Lies Sleeping (2018)

There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.

The Hanging Tree (2016)

I wondered, not for the first time, whether all farmers become obsessed or if only obsessive people become farmers.

Tales from the Folly (2020)

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