93 Quotes by Anne Perry

Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even to the very belief in life.

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.

It was not something you could call friendship; it was at once less and more. The sharing of such experiences created a bond and set them apart from all others. It was not something that could be told to another person. There were no words with a meaning both could understand which would impart the physical horror or the heights and depths of emotion.

You could make beautiful pictures with paint, but there was nothing behind it.

You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.

People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.

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

As one grew older, one remembered only the energy, the optimistic side of being young. Time removed many of the agonies of uncertainty, self-doubt, loneliness, and the confusion that can hurt so much. Maybe it was just as well. Age brought its own diffucult pains.

I'm not talking about dislike. If you stand for anything at all, there will be people who dislike you," she said impatiently. "I chose the word hate because I meant it.