# The Furthest Station

- Author: [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md)
- Quotes: 13
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station

## Quotes

> Or my gut was wrong.
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> Confirmation bias has put more innocent people in prison than malice.

p. 98 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/or-my-gut.md)

> “Like when you kiss me,” she said. “Is it enjoyable because of the physical sensation or is it because you think it should be enjoyable?”
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> Good question, and we quickly developed experimental protocol which unfortunately left us too knackered to record our results properly and thus invalidated any conclusions. We have faith in the methodology, though, and continue to repeat the experiment on a regular basis.
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> And people say science is dull.

p. 103 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/like-when-you.md)

> The house was neat and well cared for, but to my eye the Heywoods were losing the battle against the four-year-old agent of entropy who was living with them

p. 73 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/the-house-was.md)

> Here the bland 1930s art deco stylings of the station gave way to the horror that was the 1980s where every public building was deliberately crafted to look as much like a urinal as possible.

p. 56 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/here-the-bland.md)

> When you’re four, forever and ever can mean yesterday.

p. 78 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/when-youre-four.md)

> The railway hit Harrow on the Hill in 1880 and it’s been downhill ever since, culminating in one of those formless red brick shopping centres which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.

p. 45 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/the-railway-hit.md)

> You see, the trouble with detectives is that they’re detectives and are literally trained not to believe anything they haven’t verified themselves.

p. 82 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/you-see-the.md)

> Nightingale has always been reluctant to let me loose on the library and I must have frowned or something because he went on, “My worry with you, Peter, is not what you would learn but that, should you go into the library, you might never emerge again.”

p. 65 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/nightingale-has-always.md)

> “Nice,” said Abigail. “Very plausible.”
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> “Yeah, but just because it’s plausible doesn’t mean it’s true.”

p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/nice-said-abigail.md)

> I’ve always believed that my dad is right about one thing—your life is your solo and whatever song you choose to sing you only get to do it once.

p. 62 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/ive-always-believed.md)

> “I wasn’t eavesdropping,” I said. “I was gathering intelligence.”

p. 39 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/i-wasnt-eavesdropping.md)

> I didn’t dare ask because we have an unspoken agreement—I don’t question what she does on my computer when I’m out and, in return, she doesn’t murder me in my sleep.

p. 66 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/i-didnt-dare.md)

> A promise is a promise, or as Nightingale put it, “either your word is good or it’s worthless.”

p. 9 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/a-promise-is-a-promise.md)