Standing by the Wall Quotes

“Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you.”
― Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall

“Lech and Shirley were getting loud about what made a good pub good. “Comfortable seating and no rap on the jukebox,” said Lech. “Wide range of lagers and flavoured gin,” said Shirley. “Give the punters a party in their pants.” “Leaving aside the lager abomination,” Lech said, “‘a party in their pants’?” “What’s wrong with that?” Shirley, aggrieved, sounded a lot like a twelve-year-old. “It’s an everyday expression. Like ‘look before you leap.’ Or ‘Prince Andrew denies the allegations.”
― Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

“How”
― Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall

“There were stories here she’d followed through her archives, which lay below the pavements of Regent’s Park, and she could tell a legend from a myth at a hundred paces—she always said “paces” when making this claim, staring hard at her interlocutor from the depths of her wheelchair, daring a furtive glance at her absent legs. Only Lamb had ever laughed, and she’d have been disappointed if he hadn’t.”
― Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

“Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time.”
― Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall

“If you get away with something for long enough, you start to think you’re too clever to be caught.”
― Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas