Peter Kirby > Quotes

“Crime doesn’t take a holiday. It changes costume for the season, and Christmas is the season for domestic violence. Too much pressure to deliver the perfect gift, and not enough money. Too little to say, and too much alcohol encouraging confessions. Never enough love or imagination to deliver the dream.”
― Peter Kirby, The Dead of Winter

“But you know how it is with fathers and sons. We can’t say what we want to say. We think a nod is a paragraph and a sentence is a book, and, in the end, all that’s important is left unspoken.”
― Peter Kirby, The Dead of Winter

“I suppose that’s an inevitable part of human existence, but in the bosom of a close family it can, at least, be endured. For the homeless, there is no relief. Without family or friends there’s only the pain.”
― Peter Kirby, The Dead of Winter

“Only solitude means never having to say you’re sorry.”
― Peter Kirby, Open Season

“But just because you put on a uniform doesn’t mean you hang up your humanity.”
― Peter Kirby, The Dead of Winter