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Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.
it all made sense at the time, trust me.
we police never like to use real words when we can use an incomprehensible bit of jargon instead.
Given that all three of us were Londoners, we paused a moment to carry out the ritual of the “valuation of the property.”
“Better than yours. ‘Aut viam inveniam aut faciam,’ ” I said, “which means, ‘I’ll either find a way or make one,’ ” which was a favorite of Nightingale’s and attributed to Hannibal.
“Yes, he is,” said Stephanopoulos. Seawoll dropped the mangled paper clip back into a little Perspex box, where it served, presumably, as an awful warning to the rest of the stationery.
the kind of massive multifunction watch that appeals to people who regularly jump from aircraft into the sea while wearing scuba gear. Or at least really wished they did.
before the modernists switched their worship to the concrete altar of brutalism.
I took the wine but avoided the smile, what with me being on duty and everything.
And, being police, you’re totally used to being considered rude and impolite.
Fraudulent even in death.
Tall and elongated like a wicked Jamaican girl who’d got on the wrong side of Willy Wonka,
QUITE SIMPLY, to be police is to drink.
You burn down one central London tourist attraction, I thought, and they never let you forget it.
He insinuates himself through traffic like a tiger padding through a jungle, or at least how I imagine a tiger pads through a jungle.
Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale—to the Jag mobile.
Who else would expend that much effort on something no one was ever going to see?
This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I’ve never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.
I didn’t want to die, but the truth is, the choice isn’t in your hands.
“Guns don’t kill people, we kill people with guns.”
That’s because all good lies contain as much truth as the liar thinks they can get away with.
It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life.
As Conan the Barbarian famously said, “That which does not kill us does not kill us.”
“Oh my God,” I heard Lesley say behind me. “It’s like being fifteen again.”
