93 Quotes by Anne Perry

Her happiness swept the house in a whirlwind; her misery wrapped it in a purple gloom.

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

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.

But easy victories pall after a while. If one always wins, perhaps one is attempting only what is well within one’s capabilities – and there lies a kind of death, don’t you think? That which does not grow may well be showing the first signs of atrophy.

It is the spirit which heals the transgressor, and that is in essence what matters.

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.

In that moment there was no pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and complete.

Everything between sunset and darkness. There is so much room for imagination. You see things in a different way from the glare of daylight. There’s a richer beauty, and an awareness of how fleeting it all is, how ephemeral.

Without the discipline of work, they had invented the discipline of etiquette, and it had become just as ruthless a master.