"“This is a terrible work,” I said. “Why did you do it?” “The usual reasons,” said the Magister. “I told myself it was piety and duty to the Church, but a thousand years of contemplation will batter down the doors of one’s own delusions.”"
Ben Dylan Aaronovitch is an English author and screenwriter. He is the author of the series of novels Rivers of London. He also wrote two Doctor Who serials in the late 1980s and spin-off novels from Doctor Who and Blake's 7.
"According to my therapist, attaching conditionals to your past is a classic distancing technique indicating an unwillingness to face your memories directly. Or, I pointed out, it could be a rhetorical device designed to add a humorous note to enliven a story. To which she said, “Or both.” You can’t win with therapists, you know. And even if you do, they just tell you it’s part of the process."
Ben Aaronovitch"“Any abductions?” I asked. “Loads,” he said. “But none verified.”"
Ben Aaronovitch"My hand was shaking a little and the pin proved harder to pull than I expected—I guess that’s a safety feature on a grenade."
Ben Aaronovitch"It’s a bland box of a building built in the 1970s; it was considered to be so lacking in architectural merit that there was talk of listing it so that it could be preserved for posterity as an awful warning."
Ben Aaronovitch"Given that he was writing in the late eighteenth century, I like to cut him slack."
Ben Aaronovitch"Not everything that’s unexplained is caused by magic."
Ben Aaronovitch