Quillian

“No, Diana’s like me. She enjoys rewards commensurate, not to her achievements, but to her expectations. Because she and I, we’re insiders. Always have been. Brought up to it, dined out on it, slept in all of its bedrooms.”
― Mick Herron, Clown Town

“When Tavener invited you to trust her, count your spoons. And if you didn't bring spoons, check she hasn't planted one on you, to have you arrested for theft later.”
― Mick Herron, Clown Town

“He’d suffer being squeezed—squoze?—if it would settle his future.”
― Mick Herron, Clown Town

“It’s not the bullet with my name on it that frightens me. It’s the one addressed “to whom it may concern.”
― Mick Herron, Clown Town