Anne Perry Quotes

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

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

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.

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.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

... 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.

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.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

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

We believe world peace is inevitable.

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.

some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!