Imogen Robertson > Quotes

“To forget a wrong is the best revenge.”
― Imogen Robertson, The Paris Winter

“...music does not mean anything at all. You cannot ask it to speak to you in such concrete terms. It can evoke, affect, cajole and persuade, but it's language is not that of speech. Indeed, if a composer can say in literal terms what his music means, he had much better write prose than notes... Let music, when you hear it, work on you in its own way...let it flow around you and find its own way to touch you. It is not something you must translate moment by moment. Give it your attention. If it fails to speak to you in its own manner then, well, it is a failure of the music, not in yourself.”
― Imogen Robertson, Anatomy of Murder

“What does Dante say of revenge?' He turned back. 'That it is a sin. A sin of anger, and those who commit it are surrounded by a rank fog, forever tearing each other apart or gnawing at their own limbs. They are trapped in the marsh.”
― Imogen Robertson, The Paris Winter

“Sometimes we do not realise how much we have been suffering until that suffering is removed.”
― Imogen Robertson, The Paris Winter

“Harriet Shrugged. Crowther had always thought the gesture a little vulgar in women, but he was learning to allow Mrs. Westerman any number of liberties.”
― Imogen Robertson, Instruments of Darkness

“Maud had seen a drunk hit a woman; the hissing violence of it, the suddenness of the action, the silence of the blow.”
― Imogen Robertson, The Paris Winter

“Men fall in love with the woman who is leaving or the one who has just arrived.”
― Imogen Robertson, The Paris Winter