Slow Horses
Mick Herron
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Lamb said, ‘If you had issues with him, I could have spoken to HR. Arranged an intervention.’ He tapped Moody’s shoulder with his foot. ‘Breaking his neck without going through your line manager, that shit stays on your record.”
“This was the blissful break when the world seemed a safer place, between the end of the Cold War and about ten minutes later.”
“How's your career looking?' 'Well, I don't have an arse two inches in front of my nose, so my view beats yours.”
“He has the people skills of a natterjack toad, but he knows his way round the ether.”
“He and I, we're friends. Does that sound odd? Me, friends with a pinko journalist?' Nothing sounded odd to Lamb; except, perhaps, that people had friends.”
“Fear lives in the guts. That’s where it makes its home. It moves in, shifts stuff around; empties a space for itself—it likes the echoes its wingbeats make. It likes the smell of its own farts.”
“But the first bedtime story he ever did read me was Kim.' River could tell she recognised the title, so didn't elaborate. 'After that, well, Conrad, Greene. Somerset Maugham.''Ashenden.' 'You get the picture. For my twelfth birthday, he bought me le Carré's collected works. I can still remember what he said about them.'They're made up. But that doesn't mean they're not true.”
“Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture.”
“Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it.”
“Catherine said, "There's something I don't get." Ho waited. "You're telling us you've got friends?”
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