Anne Perry Quotes

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

  Anne Perry

  Men, Laughing

  Anne Perry (2001). “The Whitechapel Conspiracy”

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• A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

  Anne Perry

  Dream, Mind, Library

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

  Anne Perry

  Lying, People, Sin

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• To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

  Anne Perry

  Love, Blessing, Soul

  Anne Perry (2013). “Tathea”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

  Anne Perry

  Pain, Moving, Space

  Anne Perry (2004). “Shoulder the Sky: A Novel”, p.235, Ballantine Books

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

  Anne Perry

  Lying, Cleaners, Wounds

  Anne Perry (2006). “Dark Assassin: A William Monk Novel”, p.236, Ballantine Books

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• I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

  Anne Perry

  Writing, Thinking, People

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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 minute part, simply an antechamber, a deciding place where we choose the light from the dark, where we come to know what we truly value.

  Anne Perry

  Believe, Dark, Light

  Anne Perry (2010). “The Silent Cry: A William Monk Novel”, p.299, Ballantine Books

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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 are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.

  Anne Perry

  Grieving, People, Degrees

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• Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this, or that.' 'I' am never 'you'--and my solutions may not be yours.

  Anne Perry

  People, May, Helping

  Anne Perry (2010). “The William Monk Mysteries: The First Three Novels”, p.183, Ballantine Books

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• We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

  Anne Perry

  Hurt, Trying, Way

  Anne Perry (2010). “A Sudden, Fearful Death: A William Monk Novel”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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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 brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

  Anne Perry

  Heart, Optimism, Brain

  Anne Perry (2011). “Callander Square”, p.184, Open Road Media

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• I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

  Anne Perry

  Past, Differences, People

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• I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.

  Anne Perry

  Couple, War, Moving

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• You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

  Anne Perry

  Writing, People, Doe

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• What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and no doubt will be more, because I am still learning, both about myself and about life.

  Anne Perry

  Believe, Journey, Errors

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• We believe world peace is inevitable.

  Anne Perry

  Believe, World, Inevitable

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• Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a lot longer than romance. You can fall out of love, as well in. Most of us do, especially if you don’t actually like the person as well. It doesn’t always grow into love by any means, but sometimes it does.

  Anne Perry

  Falling In Love, Mean, Thinking

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• Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

  Anne Perry

  Country, Class, Different

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

  Anne Perry

  Beauty, Pain, Kind

  Anne Perry (2005). “Angels in the Gloom: A Novel”, p.67, Ballantine Books

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• The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

  Anne Perry

  War, Believe, Loss

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• Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

  Anne Perry

  Anchors, Skills, People

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• The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.

  Anne Perry

  Beautiful, Sea, Shadow

  Anne Perry (2010). “A Breach of Promise: A William Monk Novel”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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• Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.

  Anne Perry

  Gowns, Care, Forgettable

  Anne Perry (2010). “Belgrave Square: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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

  Anne Perry

  Two, Pages, Week

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