MaryEllen

“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

“As Judd remarked later, “History has an open-door policy. Any fool can walk right in.”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“Staying put was out of the question. A hotel? But this was London, a city with more cameras than pigeons, and the Service had access to any CCTV system they chose. Showing his face in a hotel lobby would be as discreet as popping up on The X Factor. Leaving town was a better bet, but he couldn’t use his car . . .”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“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