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1 " knew "
― Peter May , The Lewis Trilogy: The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man, The Chessmen
2 " El problema con la venganza... es que, aunque sin duda puede causar dolor en la otra parte, no consigue curar las heridas que uno siente. "
― Peter May , The Blackhouse (Lewis Trilogy, #1)
3 " El problema con la venganza... es que, aunque sin duda puede causar dolor en la otra parte, no consigue curar las heridas que uno siente. Así que al final todos acaban siendo desgraciados. "
4 " But the one thing Fin had learned from his years in the police was that however much you believed you had them figured out, people invariably surprised you. "
5 " Life went past you in a flash, like a bus on a rainy night in Ness. You had to be sure it saw you and stopped to let you on, otherwise it was gone without you, and you would be left with a miserable walk home in the wind and the wet. "
6 " Knew, too, that it wasn’t just Mona he wanted to run away from. It was everything. Back to a place where life had once seemed simple. A return to childhood, back to the womb. How easy it was now to ignore the fact that he had spent most of his adult life avoiding just that. Easy to forget that as a teenager nothing had seemed more important to him than leaving. "
7 " When you are young a year is a big part of your life and seems to last for ever. When you are old, there have been too many of them gone before and they pass all too fast. We move so slowly away from birth, and rush so quickly to death. "
― Peter May , The Lewis Man (Lewis Trilogy, #2)
8 " The trouble with jealous revenge is that while you might inflict hurt on the other party, it does nothing to lessen the effect of the hurt you are feeling yourself. So everyone ends up unhappy. "
9 " A light wind blew high clouds across an inky sky, stars like jewels set in ebony. An almost full moon came and went in washes of colourless silver light. The air was filled with the sound of the ocean, the slow steady breath of eternity. "
― Peter May , Entry Island
10 " It’s odd how people can get locked into a kind of time warp. There’s a time in their lives that defines them, and they hang on to it for all the subsequent decades; the same hair, the same style of clothes, the same music, even though the world around them has changed beyond recognition. "
11 " All along the ragged coastline, the sea sucked and frothed and growled, tireless legions of riderless white horses crashing up against the stubborn stone of unyielding black cliffs. "
12 " And although I knew nothing of love, I knew that I had found it, and never wanted to lose it. "
13 " Getting old doesn’t make them any less valid, or any less real. And it’ll be us one day. "
14 " Tri rudan a thig gun iarraidh: an t-eagal, an t-eudach’s an gaol. (Three things that come without asking: fear, love and jealousy.) "
15 " I have since learned never to trust men with combovers. They have absolutely no judgement. "
16 " Faith is the crutch of the weak. You use it to paper over all the contradictions. And you fall back on it to provide easy answers to impossible questions. "
17 " Now he was learning again how easy it was to be lonely in a crowd. "
18 " I don’t think of myself as old. In my head I’m still the boy I was at seventeen. I just can’t do the things I did back then, and I get a shock when I look in the mirror. But I don’t see me as you do. In fact, I can look at fellas ten years my junior and think of them as ‘old boys.’ I look at attractive young women and delude myself that they might still fancy me. It’s just a matter of perspective.” He "
― Peter May , Runaway
19 " The drive down to Uig passed in a painful blur. Great fat raindrops spat on his windscreen like tears spilled for the dead. "
― Peter May , The Chessmen (Lewis Trilogy, #3)
20 " It’s odd how people can get locked into a kind of time warp. There’s a time in their lives that defines them, and they hang on to it for all the subsequent decades; the same hair, the same style of clothes, the same music, even though the world around them has changed beyond recognition. My "
