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Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?Ben Aaronovitch
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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.Ben Aaronovitch
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I've already told the police what happened, they didn't believe me. Why should you, ' he said.' Because we're the people that believe people that other people don't believe, ' I said.' How can I know that?' he asked.' You're just going to have to believe me, ' I said.Ben Aaronovitch
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Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?'' Yes, ' he said. 'But there's a catch.'' What's the catch?'' You get hunted down even unto the ends of the Earth and summarily executed.Ben Aaronovitch
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Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.Ben Aaronovitch
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I did feel a 'something', like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation.Ben Aaronovitch
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On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.Ben Aaronovitch
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As I stepped onto the gloomy landing a word formed in my mind: two syllables, starts with a V and rhymes with dire. I froze in place. Nightingale said that everything was true, after a fashion, and that had to include vampires, didn’t it? I doubted they were anything like they were in books and on TV, and one thing was for certain – they absolutely weren’t going to sparkle in the sunlight.Ben Aaronovitch
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So magic is real, ’ I said. ‘Which makes you a … what?’‘ A wizard.’‘ Like Harry Potter?’Nightingale sighed. ‘No, ’ he said, ‘not like Harry Potter.’‘In what way?’‘ I’m not a fictional character, ’ said Nightingale.Ben Aaronovitch
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This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.Ben Aaronovitch