MaryEllen

“there were always men in the background, imagining they were centre stage. The newer variety, who were careful to keep their inner Weinstein on a leash; older ones like Peter Judd, who wore their chauvinism like battlefield decorations; and uncategorisable miscreants like Jackson Lamb, who probably thought the glass ceiling was a feature in a Berlin brothel.”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“Cantor approved of a system which had allowed him to get rich, but he also believed in pulling the ladder up afterwards. If everyone succeeded, nobody did. Anything else was basically communism.”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“Cantor would have found out the hard way that you never feed a cat just once. You feed a cat, it owns you ever after.”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“The air in the house shifted, a rearrangement she could feel even in the study.”
― Mick Herron, Slough House