“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 depend upon it. I feel that something is coming; sooner or later, my words be marked. It has been before, as well you know, and it will come again, if not in my lifetime in yours,… — Sarah Perry Copy Share
“...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 sadness was overwhelmed by fear and visceral disgust and rage, rage so consuming and aimless that sometimes I was afraid of myself. I was convinced that the killer's fury had entered me, and would never leave.… — Sarah Perry Copy Share
“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
