75 Quotes by Sarah Perry



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    The principle of caution, respecting the gravity of human suffering, weighs against procreating to the extent that it is unpredictable whether the person created will have a good life." - Every Cradle Is a Grave

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    Each considers the other to have a fatal flaw in their philosophy which ought by rights to exclude a friendship, and are a little baffled to discover it does nothing of the kind.

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    What had once been grand houses were divided meanly into many small apartments, let at prices out of all proportion to what wages it was possible to earn. Rooms were sub-let, and sub-let again, so that what constituted a family had long been forgotten.

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    I wonder, when God permitted us to fall, if He knew we'd fall so far.

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    I understood that this mirrored my first days in Texas, when I longed for Maine forests even as I was falling in love with the desert, and once again I felt I'd forever be dreaming of a place other than the one I was in.

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    But a violent act is an epicenter; it shakes everyone within reach and creates other stories, cracks open the earth and reveals buried secrets. I want those stories, I want those secrets.

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