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Anne Perry QUOTES

Anne Perry QUOTES

1 " We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

2 " 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 well in. Most of us do, especially if you don’t actually like the person as well. It doesn’t always grow into love by any means, but sometimes it does. "

― Anne Perry , Pentecost Alley (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #16)

3 " 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! "

― Anne Perry

4 " He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have. "

― Anne Perry , Betrayal at Lisson Grove (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #26)

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

― Anne Perry , No Graves As Yet (World War I, #1)

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

― Anne Perry , Execution Dock (William Monk, #16)

7 " People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies. "

― Anne Perry

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

― Anne Perry , Dark Assassin (William Monk, #15)

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

― Anne Perry , Tathea (Tathea, #1)

10 " 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. "

― Anne Perry

11 " That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death. "

― Anne Perry , No Graves As Yet (World War I, #1)

12 " Sometimes we bring to a struggle or cause the gifts we see most clearly, a courage, a strength, or a charm others have told us we have. But often we find more is asked of us than that, more than we intended or thought we possessed. We are asked to offer that which we thought dearest, to forgive what seemed unpardonable, to face what we feared the most and endure it. Sometimes we have to travel to the last step a path that was not of our own choosing. But I promise you this ... it will lead to a greater joy in the end. The difficulty is that the end is beyond our sight, it is a matter of faith, not of knowledge. "

― Anne Perry , A Christmas Visitor (Christmas Stories, #2)

13 " 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 about, Wallace. Christmas is about offering hope to all people, not just those like ourselves. Christmas is about everyone: rich or poor, friend or stranger. The moment you exclude anyone, you exclude yourself. "

― Anne Perry , A Christmas Hope (Christmas Stories, #11)

14 " 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. "

― Anne Perry , No Graves As Yet (World War I, #1)

15 " 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. "

― Anne Perry , Belgrave Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #12)

16 " 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. "

― Anne Perry , Tathea (Tathea, #1)

17 " How quickly a moment sinks into the past. "

― Anne Perry , No Graves As Yet (World War I, #1)

18 " Sometimes those who cannot create enjoy the power to destroy. "

― Anne Perry , Bethlehem Road (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #10)

19 " You could make beautiful pictures with paint, but there was nothing behind it. "

― Anne Perry , A Christmas Revelation (Christmas Stories, #16)

20 " I never lend books I expect to require again. "

― Anne Perry