# Quote — Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons

> “My mum is game for any branch of Christianity that involves singing and hellfire,” I said. “She likes churches so much she switches to a new one twice a year.”

- Author: [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md)
- Book: [Amongst Our Weapons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/amongst-our-weapons.md)
- Page: 51
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#Amongst_our_Weapons_(2022)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/amongst-our-weapons/my-mum-is-game

## More from this book

> The trouble with turning a blind eye is that people often take the opportunity to punch you in the face.

p. 153 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/amongst-our-weapons/the-trouble-with.md)

> “Desperate people do desperate things,” said Spencer-Talbot. “Perhaps if we all did more to make things less desperate, then perhaps there would be less violence.”

p. 240 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/amongst-our-weapons/desperate-people-do-desperate.md)

> “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.”

p. 279 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/amongst-our-weapons/this-is-a-terrible.md)