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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.

Ben Aaronovitch

Actually I’d always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale – to the Jag mobile.
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Bats Library Phones
This is your brain on magic.
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Brain Innovation Magic
When you’re a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don’t want to know.
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Adults Boys Effort
The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling.
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Country Jumping Possible Sport Wrestling
What’s the biggest thing you’ve zapped with a fireball?’ I asked. ‘That would be a tiger,’said Nightingale. ‘Well don’t tell Greenpeace,’ I said. ‘They’re an endagered species.’ ‘Not that sort of tiger,’ said Nightingale. ‘
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Eye Track Two
He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn’t know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
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Giving Important Name
What do you think you’re doing?
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Lucky Charm Psycho Thinking
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
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Book Dream Winter
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
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Deception Self Trying
The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class.
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Character Educational Thinking
Are they really gods?” “I never worry about theological questions,” said Nightingale. “They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen’s peace – that makes them a police matter.
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Police Queen Worry
My dad was a fairy,” said Zach. “And by that I don’t mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
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Dad Mean Musical
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
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Answers Ignored Question
Every male in the world thinks he’s an excellent driver. Every copper who’s ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.
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Males Puddles Thinking
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there’s someone else to do the housework.
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Children Facts Reason
If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it.
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Drunk People Thinking

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