Ben Aaronovitch - Moon Over Soho (2011)

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My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner.

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The first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first.

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It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

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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.

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He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

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When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.

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The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

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Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.

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The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.

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