“Sometimes when someone tells you not to go somewhere, it’s better not to go there.”

— Ben Aaronovitch, book Rivers of London

Source: Rivers of London (2011; American edition title: Midnight Riot), Chapter 9, “The Judas Goat” (p. 189)

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