75 Quotes by Sarah Perry

To sin is to try, but fall short. Of course we cannot get it right each time - and so we try again.

There was grief, too, that was certain, and she was grateful for it, since however loathed he'd been by the end, he'd formed her, at least in part - and what good ever came of self-loathing?

My thoughts are so tangled they'll take a mile or more to unravel.

This morning as I walked for the train I saw a dying bird on the road — something about the way it flailed blindly on the path made me feel sick. Then I realised it was just a clump of wet leaves blowing about, but it was a while before the nausea passed — and it struck me that if my body had responded as if it had been the bird, was my perception of it really false, even if it had only been the leaves?

Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?

This melancholy company is curiously consoling. It is restful to be exempted from the obligation to find, in every spire and pinnacle of the mother of cities, reason to wonder and delight.

I am torn and I am mended - I want everything and need nothing - I love you and am content without you.Even so, come quickly!

anything that was ever worth knowing began with once upon a time

Grace," he said suddenly. "On Sunday I'll talk about the quality of grace, which I suppose is a gift of a kind---of goodness and mercy undeserved, and unexpected." "That'll do for your sermon," she said. "That's quite enough. Let them go home early and walk in the forest, and find God there.