“Giant squids are pretty alien,” I said. “Not to another giant squid,” said Beverley. - Ben Aaronovitch

I don’t like the fact that all we have so far is that somebody did something to somebody at some time which may or may not have some fucking connection so some other people who we’re not sure still exist.

When you’re four, forever and ever can mean yesterday.

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.