Foxglove Summer Quotes

“From then on, it was even twistier B-roads through a country so photgenically rural that I half expected to meet Bilbo Baggins around the next corner - providing he'd taken to driving a Nissan Micra.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer

“Then Beverley Brook stepped onto the footplate and pointed a shotgun straight at the Queen’s head – I recognised the Purdey from my trunk. It was nice to see it getting an airing.
Beverley herself was wearing an oversized leather jerkin and jeans. Her dreads had been tied into a plait down her back and a pair of antique leather and brass goggles were pushed up onto her brow.
‘Put your hands on your head,’ she said, ‘and step away from the boyfriend.’
The Queen hissed and gripped the rope harder.”
― Aaronovitch Ben

“Ipsa scientia potestas est"
Knowledge itself is power
(written in a ponderous cursive hand on the inside cover of every single noteboook by
Barnaby Atkins Esq. M.A. Oxen.
County Practioner, Hereford)”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer