“Oh, she had loved him – no-one could ever have loved more: she’d been too young to withstand it, a child intoxicated by an inch of drink. He had been imprinted on her vision, as if she’d glanced at the… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a teacup with no thought for what waited behind the curtains...seemed little short of miraculous.” — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“The point is not what I see, but what I feel; I cannot see the ether, yet I feel it enter and depart, and… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“...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… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“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… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafes on the Strand; it was lost by those… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“CLEAVE. To cleave to something is to cling to it with all your heart, he said, but to cleave something apart is to break… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“But it was impossible to share my feelings of grief with Peggy, because most of the time it was impossible to feel them. My… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“what use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no more fixed than the… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“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… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“the old stories were right, she thought, and man had been first made from a handful of dust, here was Adam himself: all mud,… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you: where the knife failed, you have succeeded. He is shattered - you have turned out all his lights! You have… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“It was just the light,’ she said, ‘up to its old tricks. But how was my heart to know?” — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
