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Blood at the Root (Inspector Banks, #9) QUOTES

Blood at the Root (Inspector Banks, #9) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " 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)

3 " 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)

4 " 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)

5 " Nice state of affairs, isn’t it,” said Hepplethwaite, “when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. "

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

6 " 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? "

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

7 " 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. "

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

8 " Raymond Chandler,” said Hepplethwaite with a sly grin. “General Sternwood at the beginning of The Big Sleep. One of my favorite films. Bogey as Philip Marlowe. Must have seen it about twenty times. Know it by heart. "

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

9 " Oh, Maureen. Don’t be so naive. Everybody knows what it’s like these days. The authorities bend over backward to help immigrants. You ought to know that, being in nursing. It’s all opportunities for ethnics, not for decent, hardworking white folks. "

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

10 " Craig laughed. "

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