# Quote — Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

> 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.”

- Author: [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md)
- Book: [The Furthest Station](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station.md)
- Page: 65
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#The_Furthest_Station_(2017)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-furthest-station/nightingale-has-always

## More from this book

> Or my gut was wrong.
>
> 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?”
>
> 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.
>
> 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)