Anne Perry Quotes
Top 63 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anne Perry
Anne Perry Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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
After all, the God she believed in cared for every soul, and what happened to the body left behind mattered not at all.
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
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.
A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.
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.
I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
Where physical survival was relatively easy, one created rules to make social survival more difficult.
Life is frightening," Claudine corrected her. "And beautiful and full of strange and unexpected opportunities. This is one of them.
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.
He actually cared. It was an odd friendship- awkward, grown slowly from beginnings of mutual contempt- but it was real nonetheless.
His face crumpled a little. It was highly expressive, mirroring his thoughts and feelings more than he wished.
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.
But old wounds don't stop aching. They are always under the surface, ready to remind one of the original injuries.
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!
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.
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.
What is the use of knowing everything, if you never actually practise it? They are forever cooking and never eating
Without the discipline of work, they had invented the discipline of etiquette, and it had become just as ruthless a master.
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.
Time was a peculiarly elastic measurement. It was an empty space, given meaning only by what it contained, and afterwards distorted in memory.
In that moment there was no pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and complete.
Anger at injustice has righted more wrongs than most other things, and it is one of the great creative forces in a civilized society.
In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening.