A Killing in November Quotes

“The Superintendent took a breath. ‘What do you know about the Oxford colleges?’ ‘Well, they’re pretty weird—’ ‘They’ve educated half of our prime ministers, an extremely high proportion of our politicians, judges, journalists, captains of industry, educationalists, analysts and activists. They are the heart of the establishment. A closed world. A world with its own rules, its own way of doing things. We don’t blunder in without taking care. We don’t risk offending them, because, for all we know, they’re advising the government on law-enforcement policy or police funding, or they have the ear of the producer of the News at Ten. We don’t tell the Provost of one of the colleges to calm the fuck down. Do you understand me?’ Her face pointed at him, wren-like and fierce.”
― Simon Mason, A Killing in November