Police work," said Stefan, "is ninety per cent paperwork, nine per cent bullshit and one per cent horror. - Ben Aaronovitch

I've loaded this particular gun with scrap iron," she said. "Now, I don't know if a shot to the head will kill you or not. But just consider how much fun we can have finding out.

I wasn’t ready to believe in ghosts, but that’s the thing about empirical experience: it’s the real thing.

“Unless you believe it was a coincidence that Melvin the Rat turned up at a party we were hosting.”
Actually I thought it probably was, but I found that when people are nursing a grievance it’s a waste of time trying to explain the ubiquitous nature of coincidence in the universe. People always want things to happen for a reason.