Quotes by Anne Perry

“We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.”

“Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a lot longer than romance. You can fall out of love, as wel...”

“He was perfectly capable of looking after himself, although after his marriage he had lost the knack for it. He missed the comfort of all the small things Charlotte did for him,but these were nothi...”

“Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out--anger is momentarily easier to cope with.”

“...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.”

“The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester”

“People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.”

“That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.”

“You wanted a peaceful, comfortable Christmas, with all reminders of poverty, injustice, or other people's griefs well out of sight, so as not to disturb your pleasure. That isn't what Christmas is ...”

“You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.”

“Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire...”

“To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.”

“How quickly a moment sinks into the past.”

“She knew in her heart that to be without optimism that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain was a fatal flaw the seed of death.”