Peter May > Quotes

“But you don’t have to be very smart to figure that it only takes one infected individual from Vietnam, or Thailand, or Cambodia, to fly into London, New York or Paris, and you’ve sewn the seed. In this modern age of air travel, we really do live in a global village. And we’ve created the perfect incubators for breeding and passing on infection, in the buses and planes and underground trains we travel on. We were a human disaster waiting to happen.”
― Peter May, Lockdown

“How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time as the clock ticks off the remaining days of your life, and any residual, hope slips like sand through arthritic fingers.”
― Peter May

“A real relationship's based on trust and understanding, the sharing of little things. Moments of happiness and laughter. Realising you've both just had the same thought, or were about to say the same thing.”
― Peter May

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

“How sad that so much is judged on appearance, rather than substance.”
― Peter May

“With genetic manipulation you could quite easily create an efficiently transmittable version of H5N1. Swap a human receptor binding domain from a human flu virus into an H5 backbone and you’d improve transmission efficiency enormously. The last couple of years, they’ve been doing that in labs all over the world to try to anticipate what a human transmissible H5N1 would look like.”
― Peter May, Lockdown

“The young are not curious about their elders, they just accept them for what they are. But I wish now I could go back and ask her about her life, fill in all those gaps. But of course, you can't go back.”
― Peter May

“Find yourself just counting the hours until it’s bedtime. And then you sit on your own with a bottle of wine, staring at your reflection in the windows of the house that Niall built, but didn’t want to live in.”
― Peter May, The Black Loch: The Lewis Trilogy, Book 4

“There, but for the grace of God, go you and I.”
― Peter May, Lockdown

“Fin looked at him squarely. "Sometimes there are things about yourself that you just don't want to talk about." "Why?" "Because talking about them makes you think about them, and thinking about them hurts”
― Peter May

“In this modern age of air travel, we really live in a global village. and we have created ´the perfect Inkubators for breeding and passing on infection, in the buses and planes and underground trains we travel on. we were a human disaster waiting to happen.”
― Peter May, Lockdown i London