75 Quotes by Sarah Perry

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    I believe for most of us – for me, certainly – what’s below the skin is more worth looking at than what’s outside it. Turn me inside out and I’d be quite a handsome man!

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    Male pride, she thinks: the most tender, contemptible thing!

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    And there are days I forget myself, because my eyes are the only ones that don’t see me – I look out and see beauty and think I take part in it then remember I am so different I might as well be a dog in the street, and I have never been desired, and it is beyond me to imagine it... and I’ll never tell him, even though I don’t want anything in return, because what’s really cruel is that no-one for a moment would believe that a woman like me could fall in love like everybody else.

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    You told me once you forget you are a woman, and I understand it now – you think to be a woman is to be weak – you think ours is a sisterhood of suffering! Perhaps so, but doesn’t it take greater strength to walk a mile in pain than seven miles in none? You are a woman, and must begin to live like one. By which I mean: have courage.

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    We’ve loved each other so long I’ve never been a man and not loved her.

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    Friendship is not crumbs – you’re not grubbing around for scraps while someone else takes the whole loaf. It’s all I’ve got to give. All right, once I might have had more – but for now, it’s all I’ve got.

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    Sometimes I think I sold my soul, so that I can live as I must. Oh, I don’t mean without morals or conscience- I only mean with freedom to think the thoughts that come, to send them where I want them to go, not to let them run along tracks someone else set, leading only this way or that...

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    Don’t write. Don’t come. I don’t need it. It’s not why I’ve written. Do you think my love will starve without your crumbs? Do you think I am not capable of humility? THIS is humility – I will tell you that I love you and know that you cannot return it. I will debase myself. It’s the most that I can give and cannot be enough.

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    On the streets you’ll stay, and your children, and it’ll be no more than you deserve. We are punishing poverty,” she said, pushing away her plate: “If you are poor, and miserable, and behave as you might well expect a poor and miserable person to behave, since there’s precious little else to pass the time, then your sentence is more misery, and more poverty.

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