The Lewis Man Quotes

“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

“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.”
― Peter May, The Lewis Man

“Getting old doesn’t make them any less valid, or any less real. And it’ll be us one day.”
― Peter May, The Lewis Man

“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.”
― Peter May, The Lewis Man

“I have since learned never to trust men with combovers. They have absolutely no judgement.”
― Peter May, The Lewis Man

“used to shoot rabbits, so that I could fit it into my bag. Then at first light I hoofed it back across the moor to the road. I had”
― Peter May, The Lewis Man

“had him bent over a trestle and was in the process of slipping his belt out of its loops,”
― Peter May, The Lewis Man

“Most of her time was spent spinning, dyeing and weaving wool, and joining with the other women in the waulking of the cloth,”
― Peter May, The Lewis Man

“I’ll never respect what you believe, Donald. Only your right to believe it. Just as you should respect mine not to.”
― Peter May, The Lewis Man

“to come and go as they please. But this happened”
― Peter May, The Lewis Man

“look at”
― Peter May, The Lewis Man