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

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

As police you can live with the violence, the squalor and the stupidity—it’s the waste of people’s futures that really grinds you down.

“He believed in a mystical connection between the farmer and the soil.”

“And you don’t?” I asked.

“I believe there’s a connection,” she said. “I just happen to believe it’s biochemical.”