London Falling Quotes

“You hear stories like that all your life and think: cool, a ghost bus. But now we have to look at this stuff analytically... a ghost bus?! The “ghost” of a motor vehicle? A public conveyance, presumably, which didn't head towards the light, move on to join the choir invisible in... bus heaven, the great terminus in the sky, where all good buses go when they... I don't know, break down, but instead is doomed to … drive eternally the streets of Earth! How can there be a ghost bus?!”
― Paul Cornell, London Falling

“The neighbors... hadn't, thankfully, done the usual by saying that Losley was a pleasant neighbor who'd kept herself to herself. (Always delivered in a tone of voice that suggested that, since keeping oneself to oneself was the single greatest thing one English person could do for another, the suspect ought to be excused whatever psychopathic shit they'd visited on other people.)”
― Paul Cornell, London Falling

“DI Cartwright: The cat is booby trapped? DI Quill: Welcome to my world.”
― Paul Cornell, London Falling

“You with the tentacles, you're nicked!”
― Paul Cornell, London Falling

“It’ll take weeks of grunt work and potentially lead nowhere,” said Quill. “Excellent: that sounds like police work to me.”
― Paul Cornell, London Falling

“Hell is where time has stopped, where there’s no more innovation. No horizon. No change. I sometimes think Hell would suit the British down to the ground, and that, given the chance, they’d vote for it.”
― Paul Cornell, London Falling

“Pity,’ said Costain. ‘I’ve always wanted to be working on a case where the dots on a map formed a pattern.”
― Paul Cornell, London Falling

“Intelligence Model – a formal declaration of how intelligence should be applied to policing OCN – an organized criminal network,”
― Paul Cornell, London Falling

“After the three of them got back to the Portakabin, while Quill and Ross started to add the details from the manuscript pages to the Ops Board, Sefton got out his special notebook and checked through everything he'd written down about his encounter with...whatever Brutus had been. "I was proceeding in a mystical direction when I encountered a six-foot-two Roman male, with whom I shared a certain sexual tension.”
― Paul Cornell, London Falling

“So," he said to Sefton, "you knew that ghosts were real...and you led us to the 'most haunted building in London.' What's up with that?”
― Paul Cornell, London Falling