“If they were ugly, Peter, would you care half so much?” asked Nightingale. “There are some hideous things… — Ben Aaronovitch
“If they were ugly, Peter, would you care half so much?” asked Nightingale. “There are some hideous things out there that can talk and reason, and I wonder if you would be quite so quick to rush to their defense.”
“Maybe not,” I said. “But that just makes me shallow, it doesn’t make me wrong.”
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