The Lewis Trilogy Quotes

“in an alcove, others had drawn in chairs at circular”
― Peter May, The Lewis Trilogy: The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen

“Just like all those souls lost in middle age, searching for the past on social networking sites, only to find that present reality can never live up to rose-tinted memory.”
― Peter May, The Lewis Trilogy: The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen

“housed in the British Museum in London, that repository of stolen artefacts from around the world.”
― Peter May, The Lewis Trilogy: The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen

“Lews Castle was built in the 1870s as a mansion house for Sir James Matheson. He bought the Isle of Lewis in 1844 with the proceeds from the opium he and his partner William Jardine had imported into China, turning six million Chinese into hopeless addicts in the process.”
― Peter May, The Lewis Trilogy: The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen

“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. And, of course, once you have adopted a certain attitude, it is hard to change it without losing face. I had never been as unhappy as I was through the next two days, and never more determined to stay that way.”
― Peter May, The Lewis Trilogy: The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen

“knew”
― Peter May, The Lewis Trilogy: The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen

“coruscating across the bay, torn clouds chasing their own shadows over the”
― Peter May, The Lewis Trilogy: The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen