Nice," said Abigail. "Very plausible." "Yeah, but just because it's plausible doesn't mean it's true. - Ben Aaronovitch

I asked Reynolds if she could put the bodyguards on what we’d taken to calling the Unreality List of people that might be magical, members of the demi-monde or suspiciously weird.
“It would save ever so much time,” Reynolds had said when we set it up, “if we just added the population of Florida right at the start.”

There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.

My mum is game for any branch of Christianity that involves singing and hellfire," I said. "She likes churches so much she switches to a new one twice a year.