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21 " Robert Louis Stevenson, sung by Bryn Terfel: Now when day dawns on the brow of the moorland, Lone stands the house, and the chimney-stone is cold. Lone let it stand, now the friends are all departed, The kind hearts, the true hearts, that loved the place of old. "
― Peter Robinson , Blood at the Root (Inspector Banks, #9)
22 " Nice state of affairs, isn’t it,” said Hepplethwaite, “when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. "
23 " It was the feel of the cigarette between his fingers he wanted, the sharp intake of tobacco smoke into the lungs, not some slow oozing of poison through his skin into his blood. Pity about the health problems. He felt rather like St. Augustine must have felt when he wrote in his Confessions: “Give me chastity and continency—but not yet! "
― Peter Robinson , Dry Bones that Dream (Inspector Banks, #7)
24 " He watched Clint Eastwood for a while. He had never much enjoyed cop films or cop programs on television, but watching right here and now, he could identify with Dirty Harry tracking down the villains and dealing with them his own way. He had meant what he said to Blackstone. A few minutes alone with Pamela Jeffreys’s attackers and they would know what police brutality was all about. "
25 " tight around her while she stood at "
― Peter Robinson , Past Reason Hated (Inspector Banks, #5)
26 " A cadaveric spasm had caused Rothwell to grab and hold onto a handful of dust at the moment of death, and Banks thought of the T.S. Eliot quotation, “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” which he had come across as the title of an Evelyn Waugh novel. "
27 " Our glorious warrior Jason is probably lying on some mortuary table, cut open from th’nave to th’chops as we speak, and the three bastards who put him there, the three brown bastards who put him there, are out walking the streets.” He slammed the table again. “What do you think about that? "
28 " Something like this could increase our membership tenfold. Nice, pure Aryan lad, with his whole future ahead of him, murdered by Paki immigrant scum. That’ll turn a few fence-sitters in our direction. "
29 " You can’t let someone you love suffer an agony that gets worse every day and has no possibility of ever abating or ending, except in an even more drawn-out and painful death. Would "
― Peter Robinson , Before the Poison
30 " Rather glumly, he recalled the bit at the beginning of the Trollope biography he was reading, where Trollope considers the dreary sermons persuading people to turn their backs on worldly pleasure in the hope of heaven to come and asks, if such is really the case, then “Why are women so lovely? "
31 " It was hard to imagine that anything terrible could happen on such a fine spring evening, but the activity around the little terrace house in Armley indicated that evil made no allowances for the weather. "
32 " know. Are you sure it wasn’t just youthful high spirits with "
― Peter Robinson , Abattoir Blues (Inspector Banks, #22)
33 " When he saw her, my brother stopped in his tracks and fell into her eyes so deeply you could hear the splash. "
― Peter Robinson , In a Dry Season (Inspector Banks, #10)
34 " The whiskey-soaked strains of Cesaria Evora came from the headphones of his portable CD player. "
― Peter Robinson , Playing with Fire (Inspector Banks, #14)
35 " Any idea where he might go if he did run away? Did he talk "
― Peter Robinson , Close to Home (Inspector Banks, #13)
36 " See, squire,” he said to the wide-eyed hotel manager, “our boss tells us we don’t want a lot of fuss about this. None of this evacuating the area bollocks you see on telly. We go in, we disarm him nice and quiet, then bob’s your uncle, we’re out of your hair for good. Okay? No problems for us and no bad publicity for the hotel. "
37 " Fool, he told himself. He had been looking for Keith Rothwell in Robert Calvert’s flat. But he wasn’t there. He wasn’t anywhere; he was just a slab of chilled meat waiting for a man with his collar on the wrong way around to chant a few meaningless words that might just ease the living’s fear of death until the next time it touched too close to home for comfort. "
38 " Georgina are our two consultation advisers, counsellors, then there’s Dr Alex Lukas, the medical director, and Nurse Louise Griffiths.’ ‘What’s Julian Harwood’s role?’ ‘Mr Harwood? He’s managing director of the whole group. But we never see him. I mean, he "
― Peter Robinson , Strange Affair (Inspector Banks, #15)
39 " about Barber and Kelly? Banks couldn’t tell. And if he "
― Peter Robinson , Piece of My Heart (Inspector Banks, #16)
40 " Satchidananda. "
― Peter Robinson , Friend of the Devil (Inspector Banks, #17)