The Furthest Station Quotes

“I think you’re going to find Marcus Aurelius particularly useful.’ ‘For what?’ I asked. Nightingale hesitated. ‘Quoting, mainly,’ he said. ‘And thus maintaining an air of erudition and authority.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“I didn't ask why anybody would want to risk the electric two-step on the tracks because, as police, all three of us knew that there wasn't anything so stupid that somebody wouldn't try it sooner or later.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“Don’t get me wrong, I like the countryside. In fact, some of my best friends are geographical features.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“He asked if we were really ghost hunting, and I said we were. “What, like officially?” “Officially secret,” I said because discretion is supposed to be, if not our middle name, at least a nickname we occasionally answer to when we remember.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“I suspected Molly wanted the pictures to send to her friends on Twitter and Facebook, the ones that I was not supposed to know about. I didn’t dare ask because we have an unspoken agreement—I don’t question what she does on my computer when I’m out and, in return, she doesn’t murder me in my sleep. Back”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“Fish and chip night was a Kumar family tradition that dated back to when Jaget was courting his wife and they used to meet in the last white English-owned fish and chip shop in Wembley on the basis that none of their relatives would go in there. “It”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“My father believes that everything is music,” I said. “And when you pass on you become part of the tune.” One improvisation amongst the millions and millions of melodies that create the symphony of everything. My dad basically believes that your life is your one chance at a solo—so it better be a good one. Mind you, he also thinks that Miles Davis was the Second Coming and most of the world’s woes are due to humanity’s failure to recognise him as such.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“She had a narrow face which could fall into an expression of belligerent suspicion of such power that her teachers said they could feel it even when they were hiding in the staff room. It was her stubbornness, coupled with this expression – and routine everyday low grade racism – that kept her constantly on the verge of a school suspension.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“culminating in one of those formless red brick shopping centres which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est,” he said — Life is more than merely staying alive.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“Amersham is well out of our manor, being in the County of Buckinghamshire and thus subject to the cool and professional attentions of the TVP, who are never referred to by their colleagues in the Met as the Chav Valley Police. So as we rode the train back up the line I called ahead and let them know we would be poking about, in full uniform, around their patch. They didn’t seem bothered, but they did want a firm commitment that we’d warn them before doing anything drastic”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“When faced with complex and inexplicable circumstances, a modern police officer will fall back onto one of two basic policing approaches. Option one; call for backup, arrest everyone in the vicinity and sort it out down the nick. Or option two; locate the nearest source of tea, sit everyone down and hope nobody’s carrying a concealed weapon”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“This was the SIO Detective Inspector Vincent Colombo, said DS Transcombe. ‘He loves having people make jokes about his name,’ said Transcombe. ‘So feel free to pile in when introduced.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“Asbo”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“from uni5”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“The railway hit Harrow on the Hill in 1880 and it’s been downhill ever since, culminating in one of those formless red brick shopping centres which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built. As a result, your average shopper has only to spend ten minutes inside to be reduced to a state of quiet desperation. Primark has the right idea, being right by the entrance so that fleeing punters would grab the closest approximation to whatever it was they wanted before running screaming into the night. I’m”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station