Sarah Perry

“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafés on the Strand; it was lost…

— Sarah Perry

“I’ve freed myself from the obligation to try and be beautiful,” said Cora: “And I was never more happy. I can’t remember…

— Sarah Perry

“I eat an egg for my supper and drink Guinness with it and read Brontë and Hardy, Dante and Keats, Henry James…

— Sarah Perry

“We both speak of illuminating the world, but we have different sources of light,”

— Sarah Perry

“Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?”

— Sarah Perry

“But a violent act is an epicenter; it shakes everyone within reach and creates other stories, cracks open the earth and reveals…

— Sarah Perry

“I didn't want you to see her like that," and I feel the old anger: I already had seen her like that.…

— Sarah Perry

“others made their offerings with a quavery touch of excitement that I was beginning to recognize as a desire to get closer…

— Sarah Perry

“He felt his faith deeply, and above all out of doors, where the vaulted sky was his cathedral nave and the oaks…

— Sarah Perry

“Besides(..), it's a poor woman whose ambition is only to be loved.”

— Sarah Perry

“I’m going to start by telling you a story, because anything that was ever worth knowing began with ‘once upon a time.’…

— Sarah Perry

“But she'd been 17, and armor-clad with youth, and never felt the blade go in. She'd laughed, and so had he.”

— Sarah Perry

“We've loved each other so long I've never been a man and not loved her.”

— Sarah Perry

“I said I'd go alone, but perhaps that's the point; perhaps we are always alone, no matter the company we keep.”

— Sarah Perry