{"author":"Ben Aaronovitch","author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch","total_quotes":36,"quotes":[{"text":"He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.","author":"Ben Aaronovitch","tags":["disguise","language","latin","obfuscated"],"id":18789,"author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch"},{"text":"That’s because they don’t know,’ said Tyburn. ‘It’s like economics. Everybody’s got a theory, and some people make it their religion.","author":"Ben Aaronovitch","tags":["economics","religion"],"id":29258,"author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch"},{"text":"In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.","author":"Ben Aaronovitch","tags":["cold","good-book","winter"],"id":38216,"author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch"},{"text":"I looked into the literature on this,' said Nightingale, 'and it wasn't very helpful.'There's a literature about this?'You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.","author":"Ben Aaronovitch","tags":["literature"],"id":52027,"author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch"},{"text":"I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.","author":"Ben Aaronovitch","tags":["dreams","waking","waking-up"],"id":69809,"author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch"},{"text":"Five hundred years ago the notoriously savvy Henry VIII discovered an elegant way to solve both his theological problems and his personal liquidity crisis —he dissolved the monasteries and nicked all their land.","author":"Ben Aaronovitch","tags":["humour","rivers-of-london","urban-fantasy"],"id":72786,"author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch"},{"text":"The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.","author":"Ben Aaronovitch","tags":["race","yobs"],"id":100816,"author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch"},{"text":"For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.","author":"Ben Aaronovitch","tags":["humour"],"id":112635,"author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch"},{"text":"This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.","author":"Ben Aaronovitch","tags":["humor","mothers"],"id":125017,"author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch"},{"text":"It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.","author":"Ben Aaronovitch","tags":["guilt"],"id":151095,"author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}