Anne Perry

“In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, “Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening.”

— Anne Perry

“When it came down to reality, what mattered except the lives of those you loved? All that was precious was made up…

— Anne Perry

“You know they were never apart? He loved her so much he never grew tired of watching her, listening to her, hearing…

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“He stopped. He could see in her face that she had not even thought of that sort of love. The very idea…

— Anne Perry

The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to…

— Anne Perry

“Page 134 Florence Nightengale is speaking to William Monk Of course. If you know the truth, it takes a gentler and perhaps…

— Anne Perry

“Oi didn't loike that bloke, Captain. Bastard, 'e were, but Oi s'pose rules is for them yer don't loike. Yer won't 'urt…

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“To use the skills nature had given you was necessary, as a horse must run, or a bird must fly. It”

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... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the…

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

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

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“Love is brave and generous and above all it springs from honor. In order to love someone else, you must first be…

— Anne Perry

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack…

— Anne Perry

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

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“She had never been beautiful- she had known that from the start- but she would like to have been loved, above all…

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“For how many people does fear of the future take away the present as well?”

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I believe in an individual soul which travels through eternity. This life is far from all there is--in fact, it is a…

— Anne Perry

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

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“The very ill have little privacy, even for the most intimate of things.”

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“If we can still surmount what is natural and believe what we wish to believe, in spite of the force of evidence,…

— Anne Perry

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some…

— Anne Perry

“Dai Tregarron had called her Olwen, had spoken to her as if she were a creature capable of escape from the commonplace,…

— Anne Perry

“Los hombres podían ser increíblemente tontos a veces, darse de bruces con lo evidente y aun así no verlo. Bien”

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“He was perfectly capable of looking after himself, although after his marriage he had lost the knack for it. He missed the…

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Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you…

— Anne Perry