In a Dry Season Quotes

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season

“There was something in him that always stood apart, that she couldn’t reach and he wouldn’t offer. It wasn’t just the Job and its demands, but something deeper: a central core of loneliness. He had been like that even as a child. An observer. Always on the outside, even when he played with others. As Annie said, it was a part of his nature, and he didn’t think he could change it if he tried.”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season

“Murder scenes in particular got them going: sex and death, the old aphrodisiac combination.”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season

“Whatever the arthritis had done to the rest of her body, it hadn’t progressed as far as her tongue.”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season

“The past lies like a nightmare upon the present. —Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season

“Looking back, she began to wonder if perhaps it was all just a story. As the years race inexorably on, and as all the people we know and love die, does the past turn into fiction, an act of the imagination populated by ghosts, scenes and images suspended forever in water glass?”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season

“Love lost or rejected may first turn to hate, but only over time does it become indifference.”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season

“When it comes right down to it, we fear the unknown more than anything else.”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season

“Like many things he had believed, it had all been an illusion, only true because he had been gullible enough to believe in it. In reality, it had all been as flimsy and fleeting as an optical illusion; it depended entirely on your point of view. In calendar time, perhaps, those days weren’t so long ago, but in his memory they sometimes seemed as if they had been dreamed by another person in another century.”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season

“used to write her books.”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season

“Their lovemaking had been a little tentative at first, but that was only to be expected. It never happened in real life the way it did in movies, with both lovers exploding together in a climax of Wagnerian proportions as fireworks burst, orchestras crescendoed and trains rushed into tunnels. That was pure Monty Python. In real lovemaking, especially with people new to one another’s bodies, there are disappointments, mistakes, hesitancies. If you can laugh at these, as Banks and Annie had, then you are halfway there. If you find yourself looking forward to the hours of practice it will take to learn to please one another more, as Banks did, then you are more than halfway. Afterward, skin warm and damp and tangy with sweat, she had rested in the crook of his arm and he knew then that he wouldn’t wake with a burning desire to be alone. Just for the briefest of moments he gave in to a wave of paranoia and wondered if this was a trap Riddle had set for him. A new approach. Give him enough rope to hang himself.”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season

“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

“that the event would”
― Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season