# Quote — Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man

> Not everything that’s unexplained is caused by magic.

- Author: [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md)
- Book: [The October Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-october-man.md)
- Page: 139
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#The_October_Man_(2019)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-october-man/not-everything-thats

## More from this book

> Gaston did betray an abstracted quality that might have been the result of magic. But was more likely down to consuming, I suspected, a tremendous amount of recreational chemicals.

p. 62 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-october-man/gaston-did-betray.md)

> The more power something has, the less the actual facts matter.

p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-october-man/the-more-power.md)

> “There’s paperwork for magic? asked Vanessa.
>
> “Not so glamorous now, eh?” I said.

p. 202 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-october-man/theres-paperwork-for.md)