Top 100 Anne Perry Quotes
#1. She was wearing a gown of lilac pink threaded with silver and stitched with tiny pearls. It was gorgeous in itself, and of course had the perfect new skirt, but it did not flatter her as a cooler shade would have done.
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#2. I daresay in a way he deserved it, Joseph agreed with reluctance. But which of us can afford what we deserve? I need better, don't you?
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#3. And every moment one expects the sky to fling a barrage from clouds so leaden they hang low across the city roofs and drown the horizon.
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#4. I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
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#5. The next few days passed in the customary fashion of Society during the Season. In the mornings they rode in the park, at which Emily had taught herself to be both graceful and skilled.
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#6. He was happy for other people's success.
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#7. But easy victories pall after a while. If one always wins, perhaps one is attempting only what is well within one's capabilities - and there lies a kind of death, don't you think? That which does not grow may well be showing the first signs of atrophy.
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#8. Anger at injustice has righted more wrongs than most other things, and it is one of the great creative forces in a civilized society.
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#9. All the fear in the world is not going to change anything, only rob me of what little I have.
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#10. Where physical survival was relatively easy, one created rules to make social survival more difficult.
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#11. What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and no doubt will be more, because I am still learning, both about myself and about life.
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#12. Who knows the colors someone else sees?
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#13. Embroidering the account, and decided it offered
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#14. That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.
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#15. It was his own soul he was exploring, the one territory from which there was no escape, the one enemy which must always be faced, sooner or later, more certain than anything else in life or death.
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#16. How could you find magic if you did not believe in it?
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#17. What's always right?" "Kindness," Pitt answered with certainty. "Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.
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#18. People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.
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#19. She chose a very pale teal, halfway between blue and green, with a white silk fichu at the neck.
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#20. Perhaps it is because my conviction is anyone may believe whatever they wish. Intolerance is a greater offense against God than holding a strange or even inconsistent belief. You have the right to worship what you wish - a pile of stones in your garden - as long as you do not injure others.
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#21. Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even to the very belief in life.
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#22. 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.
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#23. The time will come when we ourselves are disliked or misunderstood, or strangers, different from our judges in race or class or creed, and if their sense of justice depends upon their passion rather than their morality, who is to speak for us then, or defend our right to the truth?
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#24. A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.
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#25. That not what love is - an enlargement of the best and a healing over of the worst?
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#26. Friendship eased the heart and the mind, but there were times when the touch of arms around you healed an ache within that nothing else reached.
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#27. But I have learned something good about myself. I can stand up to people who have more power than I do, and fight for what I believe in.
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#28. Isn't it a lovely ball?" She looked around at the sea of lace and tulle and silk, the blaze of lights, the laughter and the music and the sway and swirl of movement. "I wish everyone could be as happy as I am.
Anne Perry
#29. there are none as virtuous as those who have never been asked.
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#30. I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
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#31. Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
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#32. Charlotte felt a pity for her, because her world was changing, and she did not understand it; it had no place for her. She was like one of Mr. Darwin's dinosaurs, dangerous and ridiculous, beyond its time.
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#33. He was also inordinately fond of cats.
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#34. I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.
Anne Perry
#35. The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.
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#36. An enormous gleaming grand piano stood in the center, its legs decently masked.
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#37. Love also means the freedom to follow your own conscience. If you can't be true to yourself, you don't have much left to give anyone else.
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#38. I don't expect answers from anyone. The most I ever hope for is that here and there one may find someone who at least acknowledges the question!
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#39. Runcorn was second fiddle, never first, but he had played the more beautiful tune.
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#40. We'll hardly be in a position to discover much if they know you are married to a policeman!" she pointed out. "Let alone the very policeman who is investigating the murders. Added to which, it will do no harm for the general to see you as still unmarried.
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#41. Without the discipline of work, they had invented the discipline of etiquette, and it had become just as ruthless a master.
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#42. The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
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#43. Can one be both barbarian of the soul and sophisticated of the mind?
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#44. We believe world peace is inevitable.
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#45. But old wounds don't stop aching. They are always under the surface, ready to remind one of the original injuries.
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#46. He actually cared. It was an odd friendship- awkward, grown slowly from beginnings of mutual contempt- but it was real nonetheless.
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#47. He stopped. He could see in her face that she had not
even thought of that sort of love. The very idea of a consuming sexual
passion which culminated in murder was something that had not
occurred to her with regard to herself and the general.
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#48. Friendship was at the core of every relationship that mattered--allies, parent and child, lovers. On its foundation could be built all the other palaces of the heart.
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#49. Every one of them had been somebody's son, somebody's friend. Grant rubbed his hands over his face and drew in a long breath, letting it out in a sigh. Perhaps Tallis did go mad, poor bastard. I hate this more
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#50. People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
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#51. You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
Anne Perry
#52. 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.
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#53. We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.
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#54. His face crumpled a little. It was highly expressive, mirroring his thoughts and feelings more than he wished.
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#55. She was dressed in the softest grape blue, a gentle color neither navy nor purple, nor yet silver. It was subtle, expensive and extremely flattering.
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#56. Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.
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#57. Oi didn't loike that bloke, Captain. Bastard, 'e were, but Oi s'pose rules is for them yer don't loike. Yer won't 'urt them as yer do. In't that what God's about, been fair to them as rubs your coat all the wrong way?
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#58. Love is brave and generous and above all it springs from honor. In order to love someone else, you must first be true to yourself.
Love is not two people wanting or needing what the other can give.
Hester Latterly
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#59. Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out
anger is momentarily easier to cope with.
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#60. Dai Tregarron had called her Olwen, had spoken to her as if she were a creature capable of escape from the commonplace, not the pedestrian, middle-aged woman everyone else saw, incapable of imagination, even less of passion. He had seen who she wanted to be and given the dream a moment's life.
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#61. But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know. She
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#62. 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.
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#63. I would doubt that virtue, to her, means abstinence. It is far more likely to mean courage, compassion, and the integrity to be brutally honest, first with yourself and then with others, and never to run away just because you are exhausted or afraid.
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#64. He was one of the vast numbers of people who cannot imagine themselves into the class or gender, least of all the emotions, of a different person. That is lack of vision or sensitivity, even compassion, but it is not stupidity.
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#65. It isn't always the value of what is taken that makes us hate. Sometimes it's just the fact that we've been robbed.
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#66. Some academic pursuit had been a suggestion; she found study absorbing, but the tutorial positions open to women were few, and the restrictions of the life did not appeal to her. She read for pleasure.
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#67. Death was pain and sickness, and terror of the long, blind, last step.
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#68. A man should be proud of his heritage - not arrogant, as if it made him superior, but happy to own it and live up to the best in its promise. Monk
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#69. God! I hate clever women!" She froze for an instant before the reply was on her lips. "I love clever men!" Her eyes raked him up and down. "It seems we are both to be disappointed.
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#71. In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening.
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#72. Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
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#73. Life is frightening," Claudine corrected her. "And beautiful and full of strange and unexpected opportunities. This is one of them.
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#74. Some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.
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#75. But the things that Christ taught are still true, of that I am absolutely certain. Meet me at the end of the world when we stand at the abyss ... Honor is still worth living or dying for; no matter how tired or hurt or frightened you are, face forward and seek the light.
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#76. nonsenses to them that reminded her of
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#77. Fear does different things to people. Some run away. Some go forward to meet it before it's there.
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#78. Perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.
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#79. Lady Mary came last. She looked magnificent, even regal. Her dress was highly fashionable; dark slate blue overlaid with black fleur-de-lis and stitched with jet beads across the throat and bosom, the sleeves garnered. A black hat adorned her head at a rakish angle, dashing and precarious.
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#80. To lose someone you love because they die is a sweet ache. To lose everything good you believed of them is a pain that stains all they left behind. It poisons the very air of memory. Ballinger
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#81. Their accents must have been hard for her to follow, and their faces, matted under the grime, were haunted by a permanent wariness, a mixture of anger and fear.
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#82. After all, the God she believed in cared for every soul, and what happened to the body left behind mattered not at all.
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#83. Time was a peculiarly elastic measurement. It was an empty space, given meaning only by what it contained, and afterwards distorted in memory.
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#84. Death from hunger happened a hundred yards from death from obesity.
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#85. She flushed hot to remember how utterly she had given herself to him in that one consuming kiss. All her heart and mind and will had been in it, all the things she could never ever have said to him.
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#86. When we are happy to turn from evil because it is ugly, and causes us distress, then we condone it and become party to its continuance. Little by little, we become as guilty of it as those who commit the act - because we have told them by our silence that it is acceptable.
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#87. I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
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#88. There is a fear of immorality and disease in our midst. We don't like to be reminded of such things so close to home. We feel guilty that it happens while we are perfectly well and comfortable ourselves. Africa is too far away to be our fault.
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#89. Everyone depended upon the goodwill of others, on their skills or their patronage, their friendship or their protection. It was only that some forms of dependence were more obvious than others, not any more real.
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#90. A good book changes you,even if it is only to add a little to the furniture of your mind. It will make you laugh and perhaps cry; it should certainly make you think.
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#91. We need our marks, our small illusions; few of us can bear to go naked into the world's gaze. And people will kill to keep their clothes.
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#92. Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this, or that.' 'I' am never 'you'
and my solutions may not be yours.
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#93. Who cares whether the heroine wins if there wasn't any battle?
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#94. Like castor oil, he may on some occasions be right, but he is extremely difficult to like.
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#95. That is the magical thing about books. You can listen to all the greatest people who have ever lived, anywhere in the world, in any civilization. You can see what is completely different about them, things you never imagined.
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#96. 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 season, no one will notice or care.
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#97. Hester, recently married herself, and knowing the depth and the sweep of love, ached for Callandra that she sacrificed so much. And yet loving her husband as she did, for all his faults and vulnerabilities, Hester, too, would rather have been alone than accept anyone else.
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#98. The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
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#99. She understood very clearly why people go mad. Sometimes it is the only way to survive the unbearable when all other flight has been cut off. When the body cannot remove itself and emotions cannot be deadened, then the mind simply refuses to accept reality.
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#100. Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.
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