"So magic is real,’ I said. ‘Which makes you a … what?’‘A wizard.’‘Like Harry Potter?’Nightingale sighed. ‘No,’ he said, ‘not like Harry Potter.’‘In what way?’‘I’m not a fictional character,’ said Nigh..."
- Ben Aaronovitch
"This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework."
"You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three."
"Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means ..."
"He was a Parisian,’ he said. ‘You can never be sure what Parisians believe in – beyond Paris of course."
"First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it."