# Quote — Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping

> I’m all for courageous action, in moderation, Peter. But you have an alarming tendency toward heroics.

- Author: [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md)
- Book: [Lies Sleeping](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/lies-sleeping.md)
- Page: 269
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#Lies_Sleeping_(2018)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/lies-sleeping/im-all-for

## More from this book

> I asked whether the High Fae came into the pub.
>
> Lulu gave me a crooked smile.
>
> “High Fae?” She asked.
>
> “You know,” I said. “The gentry, elves, those posh gits with extradimensional castles, stone spears and unicorns.”
>
> “You mean them what step between worlds?”
>
> “Could be.”
>
> “Who walk on paths unseen and wax and wane with the moon?”
>
> “Them sort of people,” I said. “Yeah.”
>
> “Not in here, squire,” she said. “I run a respectable pub.”

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/lies-sleeping/i-asked-whether.md)

> “Anything else to report?” he asked.
>
> “A creeping sense of existential dread,” I said. “Apart from that I’m good.”

p. 266 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/lies-sleeping/anything-else-to-report.md)

> Nightingale ignored that thread because when the suspect - I mean interviewee - wants to talk about something it's a good idea to frustrate them a little bit. That way you can get more later than they intended. Seawoll calls it the 'fuck all the cows' interview approach.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/lies-sleeping/nightingale-ignored-that.md)