Aaronovitch Peter Quotes

#1. Abigail stared suspiciously at Lesley. "Why are you wearing a mask?" she asked.
"Because my face fell off," said Lesley.
Abigail considered this for a moment and then nodded. "Okay," she said.

Ben Aaronovitch

#2. So that's when I came up with the most ridiculous plan since I'd decided to take a witness statement from a ghost. It was a plan so stupid that even Baldrick would have rejected it out of hand.

Ben Aaronovitch

#3. Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them. [ ... ] Ronan was mine but he never belonged to me. This is not an issue of ownership. A child is not a couch.

Emily Rapp

#4. Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

Charles Spurgeon

#5. I know it's hard, Peter," she'd said. "But if you could contain your erudition and ready wit for just a little while we'd be most grateful." "Am I allowed to be cheeky?" I'd asked. "No you're fucking not," said Seawoll. "I'm

Ben Aaronovitch

#6. Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

Ben Aaronovitch

#7. The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

Clive Anderson

#8. I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting".
"Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?

Ben Aaronovitch

#9. Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.

Ben Aaronovitch

#11. I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks.

Ben Aaronovitch

#12. I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. It's fun to play the type of people you dislike.

Jason Sudeikis

#14. Peter Grant,' I said. 'Recent arrival, slacker and man of very little fame.

Ben Aaronovitch

#15. Bollocks, I thought, or testiculi or possibly testiculos if we were using the accusative.

Ben Aaronovitch

#16. May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith ...

Angela Thomas

#17. From then on, it was even twistier B-roads through a country so photgenically rural that I half expected to meet Bilbo Baggins around the next corner - providing he'd taken to driving a Nissan Micra.

Ben Aaronovitch

#18. Sometimes I relax on defense and not understand I can't do that. Night in and night out, you're playing some of the best point guards in the world. That's something I'm continuing to work on and continue to develop my lower body, get quicker and more explosive.

Trey Burke

#19. With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.

Gary Weiss