Anne Perry

“It was the unknown that paralyzed the will to fight.”

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

We believe world peace is inevitable.

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

“Can one be both barbarian of the soul and sophisticated of the mind?”

— Anne Perry

“Those who stand by and watch are complicit in what they could have stopped but chose not to.”

— Anne Perry

“without honor and kindness there are no rituals in the world that make any difference,”

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

“sometimes it's not the errors you make but how you recover from them that mark the difference between failure and success”

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

“Fear does different things to people. Some run away. Some go forward to meet it before it's there.”

— Anne Perry

“I daresay in a way he deserved it," Joseph agreed with reluctance. But which of us can afford what we deserve? I…

— Anne Perry

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A…

— Anne Perry

What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and…

— Anne Perry

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

— 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

“You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to…

— Anne Perry

Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and…

— Anne Perry

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for…

— Anne Perry

“And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds…

— 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

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

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

“talking about you, laughing at you, planning your downfall somehow—to threats to your job or changes to your familiar neighborhood. Men seemed…

— Anne Perry

“I have already told you, Mr. Monk, I have no idea where my brother is. Not that I would necessarily tell you…

— 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

Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that…

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

“Monk had a brief vision of what it must be like to be a women on her own, obliged to work at…

— Anne Perry

“Sometimes we bring to a struggle or cause the gifts we see most clearly, a courage, a strength, or a charm others…

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

“A veces la ignorancia es una especie de salvaguarda.”

— Anne Perry

“How quickly a moment sinks into the past.”

— Anne Perry

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

— Anne Perry

“Life is frightening," Claudine corrected her. "And beautiful and full of strange and unexpected opportunities. This is one of them.”

— Anne Perry