# Quote — Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London

> It’s a bland box of a building built in the 1970s; it was considered to be so lacking in architectural merit that there was talk of listing it so that it could be preserved for posterity as an awful warning.

- Author: [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md)
- Book: [Rivers of London](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/rivers-of-london.md)
- Page: 92
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#Rivers_of_London_(2011%3B_American_edition_title:_Midnight_Riot)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/rivers-of-london/its-a-bland

## More from this book

> My hand was shaking a little and the pin proved harder to pull than I expected—I guess that’s a safety feature on a grenade.

p. 101 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/rivers-of-london/my-hand-was.md)

> Sometimes when someone tells you not to go somewhere, it’s better not to go there.

p. 189 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/rivers-of-london/sometimes-when-someone.md)

> Given that he was writing in the late eighteenth century, I like to cut him slack.

p. 271 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/rivers-of-london/given-that-he-was.md)