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Peter Robinson QUOTES

1 " It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. "

― Peter Robinson , Innocent Graves (Inspector Banks, #8)

2 " But he couldn't feel self-pity in the face of the memorial. He hadn't lost nearly enough as these children, who'd lost their homeland and, in many cases,their whole families. Perhaps they had gained something, too, though. They had at least escaped the concentration camps, been taken in by good, caring families, and had grown up to live their lives in relative freedom. "

― Peter Robinson , Strange Affair (Inspector Banks, #15)

3 " The only difference was, you could play the music again and again; a life plays only once. "

― Peter Robinson , Before the Poison

4 " The victim was white, in his early thirties, five feet eleven inches tall, ten and a half stone in weight, and in good physical condition. The last part always irritated Banks: how could a corpse ever be in good physical condition ? "

― Peter Robinson , The Hanging Valley (Inspector Banks, #4)

5 " Banks felt more alone and further away for having just talked to Sophia than he had before her call. But it was always like that - the telephone might bring you together for a few moments, but there's nothing like it for emphasising distance. "

― Peter Robinson , All the Colours of Darkness (Inspector Banks, #18)

6 " They locked her in the cage when she started to bleed. "

― Peter Robinson , Aftermath (Inspector Banks, #12)

7 " Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad. "

― Peter Robinson , Sleeping in the Ground (Inspector Banks, #24)

8 " he realized with a shock that the loss of innocence never stopped happening, that he was still losing it, that it was like a wound that never healed, and he would probably go on losing it, drop by drop, until the day he died. "

― Peter Robinson , Cold is the Grave (Inspector Banks, #11)

9 " He had been working at the wall for too long. Why he bothered the Lord only knew. After all, it went nowhere and closed in nothing. His grandfather had been a master waller in the dale, but the skill had not been passed down the generations. He supposed he liked is for the same reason he liked fishing: mindless relaxation. In an age of totalitarian utilitarianism, Gristhorpe thought, a man needs as much purposeless activity as he can find. "

― Peter Robinson , Wednesday's Child (Inspector Banks, #6)

10 " Paranoia is a form of awareness. "

― Peter Robinson , Bad Boy (Inspector Banks, #19)

11 " Craig wondered if the landlord knew exactly what was going on up there. If he did, he might not have been so quick to let them use it. On the other hand, the prospect of selling a few extra pints on a slow Monday night might tempt even the best of us to leave our ethics and politics at the door. "

― Peter Robinson , Blood at the Root (Inspector Banks, #9)

12 " The Maze, that labyrinth of alleys called ginnels and snickets locally—tiny squares, courtyards, nooks and crannies and small warehouses that had remained unchanged since the eighteenth century. "

― Peter Robinson , Friend of the Devil (Inspector Banks, #17)

13 " The memories were there, but the string of time that linked them like a pearl necklace was broken. "

― Peter Robinson , Gallows View (Inspector Banks, #1)

14 " Van Morrison "

― Peter Robinson , Playing with Fire (Inspector Banks, #14)

15 " Haven’t you sometimes thought that people’s vices are often the only things that make them interesting? "

― Peter Robinson , Blood at the Root (Inspector Banks, #9)

16 " But what Nev does is he takes these kids’ anger and channels it. He gives them someone to hate. He gives their rage some structure and provides them with real targets rather than nebulous ones. So they end up believing they’re committing theft, assault and vandalism for a good cause. Isn’t that what terrorism is basically all about, anyway? Add a few olde worlde patriotic values, a lot of guff about the ‘true English homeland’ and a bit of green to the mix and it makes them feel like downright responsible and virtuous citizens, the only ones who really care about their country. "

― Peter Robinson , Blood at the Root (Inspector Banks, #9)

17 " Traditional police wisdom has it that if a case doesn’t yield leads in the first twenty-four hours, then everyone is in for a long, tough haul. "

― Peter Robinson , Dry Bones that Dream (Inspector Banks, #7)

18 " gong to stay at a friend’s.” “Who? A girlfriend? "

― Peter Robinson , Friend of the Devil (Inspector Banks, #17)

19 " trouble. Events "

― Peter Robinson , Bad Boy (Inspector Banks, #19)

20 " Banks scanned the Yorkshire Post and The Independent reports to see if either newspaper knew more than the police. Sometimes they did, and it could be damned embarrassing all round. "

― Peter Robinson , Dry Bones that Dream (Inspector Banks, #7)