"The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight."
- Ben Aaronovitch
"I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them."
"Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile."
"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."
"The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience."
"Most people don't see half of what's in front of them. Your visual cortex does a shit load of imaging processing before the signal even gets to your brain, whose priorities are still checking the ance..."
"My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman."
"The world was different before the war,' he said. 'We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of..."
"The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop"
"In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold."