--- title: "1 Failed Succeeded Quotes By Sarah Perry" description: "1 Failed Succeeded quotes by Sarah Perry. Plus more from Sarah Perry and more Failed Succeeded sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b71/sarah-perry-16794_failure_let-me-tell-you-where-the-knife-failed-y_1267781.jpg" --- > [“Let me tell you: where the knife failed, you have succeeded. He is shattered - you have turned out all his lights! You have broken all his windows.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/let-me-tell-you-where-the-knife-failed-you-have-succeeded-he-is/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b71/sarah-perry-16794_failure_let-me-tell-you-where-the-knife-failed-y_1267781.jpg) ## More by Sarah Perry > [“The point is not what I see, but what I feel; I cannot see the ether, yet I feel it enter and depart, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/the-point-is-not-what-i-see-but-what-i-feel-i-cannot-see-the-ether/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“...But doesn't it take greater strength to walk a mile in pain than seven miles in none? You are a woman, and must begin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/but-doesn-t-it-take-greater-strength-to-walk-a-mile-in-pain-than/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“Sometimes the greed and malice of what he sees appalls him so much he thinks he must’ve misunderstood; he looks again, and it’s worse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/sometimes-the-greed-and-malice-of-what-he-sees-appalls-him-so-much-he/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/if-a-reasoned-creator-set-the-stars-in-their-place-then-we-must-be/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafes on the Strand; it was lost by those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/time-was-being-served-behind-the-walls-of-newgate-jail-and-wasted-by/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“CLEAVE. To cleave to something is to cling to it with all your heart, he said, but to cleave something apart is to break…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/cleave-to-cleave-to-something-is-to-cling-to-it-with-all-your-heart/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“But it was impossible to share my feelings of grief with Peggy, because most of the time it was impossible to feel them. My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/but-it-was-impossible-to-share-my-feelings-of-grief-with-peggy/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“what use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no more fixed than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/what-use-was-it-to-observe-the-human-species-and-try-to-understand-it/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“She'd never know what to do with children: Francis had wrong-footed her so completely that she'd come to think of them as delightful but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/she-d-never-know-what-to-do-with-children-francis-had-wrong-footed/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“the old stories were right, she thought, and man had been first made from a handful of dust, here was Adam himself: all mud,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/the-old-stories-were-right-she-thought-and-man-had-been-first-made/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“Let me tell you: where the knife failed, you have succeeded. He is shattered - you have turned out all his lights! You have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/let-me-tell-you-where-the-knife-failed-you-have-succeeded-he-is/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“It was just the light,’ she said, ‘up to its old tricks. But how was my heart to know?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/it-was-just-the-light-she-said-up-to-its-old-tricks-but-how-was-my/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“I’d no idea you knew England extended past Palmer’s Green: are you lost?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/i-d-no-idea-you-knew-england-extended-past-palmer-s-green-are-you-lost/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much of what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/almost-worse-than-the-sorrow-of-missing-her-was-the-fact-that-mom-s/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) > [“The fear of the crowd then came to Will, with the taste of a copper penny placed on his tongue; and it was not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/the-fear-of-the-crowd-then-came-to-will-with-the-taste-of-a-copper/) [Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/failed-succeeded/sarah-perry/#itemlist", "name": "1 Failed Succeeded Quotes By Sarah Perry", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Let me tell you: where the knife failed, you have succeeded. He is shattered - you have turned out all his lights! 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