Peter Robinson > Quotes

“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

“The only difference was, you could play the music again and again; a life plays only once.”
― Peter Robinson, Before the Poison

“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

“I have just finished "All the Colors
of Darkness" 090209”
― Peter Robinson

“But would she ever recover fully inside? How would she handle being alone in the house? Would she ever again be able to hear someone walking up the garden path without that twinge of fear and panic? He didn’t know. The psyche regenerates itself, too, sometimes. We’re often a damn sight more resilient than we’d imagine.”
― Peter Robinson

“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

“Lucy Payne was definitely a sausage or two short of the full English breakfast.”
― Peter Robinson, Aftermath

“bloke.”
― Peter Robinson, Strange Affair

“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

“You would have more hope of success as a refugee begging asylum from Priti Patel than you would as an honest copper dragged deep into the maw of an internal investigation.”
― Peter Robinson, Not Dark Yet

“Marnie”
― Peter Robinson, Not Dark Yet

“She changed. But then you do, don’t you? Otherwise what’s the point of getting married? If it doesn’t change you, I mean.”
― Peter Robinson, Aftermath

“sit.”
― Peter Robinson, Aftermath

“They locked her in the cage when she started to bleed.”
― Peter Robinson, Aftermath

“one”
― Peter Robinson, Strange Affair

“Was it the age of my innocence,
Or was it the lost Land of Oz?
Was it only a foolish illusion,
The summer that never was?”
― Peter Robinson, Close To Home

“No doubt, Annie guessed, as soon as Jennifer had got over the immediate shock of the break-up and got pissed with Melanie Scott a few times in Sicily, she had probably realized just how lucky she was to get out of the relationship.”
― Peter Robinson, Strange Affair

“A woman should be able to walk the streets of Eastvale stark naked if she wants, and no one has the right to touch her.”
― Peter Robinson, Friend Of The Devil

“Sometimes Barry plays the most depressing things.” “Joy Division,” said Banks. “He committed suicide. The lead singer.” “I’m not bloody surprised. I’d commit suicide if I sounded like him.”
― Peter Robinson, Cold Is the Grave

“one half of his face drooping lower than the other, as if it had melted like a Dalí watch.”
― Peter Robinson, The Summer That Never Was

“What? Arseholes like him give me a headache, and I’ve already got a big enough one to begin with. If you ask me, he’s watched too many episodes of Line of Duty.”
― Peter Robinson, Not Dark Yet

“If we all knew the consequences of every decision we made, we’d probably never make any.”
― Peter Robinson, Cold Is the Grave

“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

“It’s hard knowing what to allow and what not to. It’s hard to know how much discipline to apply. If you don’t give enough, then the child runs wild, and the parents get the blame. If you keep too strict control, he doesn’t develop naturally and he blames you for screwing him up.”
― Peter Robinson, The Summer That Never Was

“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

“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

“Banks smiled. "Don't worry," he said "it's my balls on the chopping-block, not yours. I'll cover for you. My word on it."
Susan smiled back. "Well, that's the first time not having any balls has ever done me any good.”
― Peter Robinson, Innocent Graves

“about Barber and Kelly? Banks couldn’t tell. And if he”
― Peter Robinson, Piece Of My Heart

“Christianity was useless if it forgot people and the here and now. Faith and belief, she felt, were no use without charity, love and compassion; religion was nothing if it focused entirely on the afterlife.”
― Peter Robinson, Innocent Graves

“The memories were there, but the string of time that linked them like a pearl necklace was broken.”
― Peter Robinson, Gallows View