Cold is the Grave Quotes

“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

“apathetic”
― Peter Robinson, Cold Is The Grave

“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

“You can keep on assigning blame here, there and everywhere, but when it comes right down to it, we’re responsible for what we do ourselves.”
― Peter Robinson, Cold Is the Grave

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

“You can’t spend your life sulking over all the mistakes you’ve made. You’d never bother getting out of bed in the morning.”
― Peter Robinson, Cold Is the Grave

“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

“lost a bit at a time, over the years; it didn’t just happen overnight. But there were intense experiences, epiphanies of a kind, that brought about quantum leaps.”
― Peter Robinson, Cold Is the Grave

“when you visit a place you used to live in for a long time, you see it differently; you become more like a tourist in your own land.”
― Peter Robinson, Cold Is the Grave

“about how we are all “emigrants from a country we remember too little of,” how important to us are the fragments we do remember clearly and how we spend our time trying to reconstruct ourselves from these.”
― Peter Robinson, Cold Is the Grave

“He always had that same empty, lonely feeling after he’d spoken to someone he loved over the telephone, as if the silence had somehow become charged with that person’s absence.”
― Peter Robinson, Cold Is the Grave