Are there aliens?" Simon asks Indigo. "Not that I know of," she says. "Unless you count cats. - Ben Aaronovitch

Now I was used to it, the bell-like silence was louder than ever, and I was starting to get undertones of orange blossom and incense. You have to be careful with this stuff or you begin to sound like a wine taster—with about the same amount of meaningless bollocks.

Desperate people do desperate things," said Spencer-Talbot. "Perhaps if we all did more to make things less desperate, then perhaps there would be less violence.

The world was different before the war," he said. "We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place—we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.