75 Quotes by Sarah Perry

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    They made me think of my students, who are so young and look at the road ahead of them happily, having no idea that the road narrows and turns back on itself, and goes through dark places, and is covered all over with things to trip you up and break your ankles.

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    He rejoices in the reason conferred on mankind but mistrusts the shifting sands of man’s ingenuity.

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    He felt his faith deeply, and above all out of doors, where the vaulted sky was his cathedral nave and the oaks its transept pillars: when faith failed, as it sometimes did, he saw the heavens declare the glory of God and heard the stones cry out.

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    The wonderful thing about being a widow is that, really, you’re not obliged to be much of a woman anymore –.

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    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?

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    Cora, you cannot always keep yourself away from things that hurt you. We all wish we could, but we cannot: to live at all is to be bruised.

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    I said I’d go alone, but perhaps that’s the point; perhaps we are always alone, no matter the company we keep.

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    Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world.

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    She’d like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a teacup with no thought for what waited behind the curtains... seemed little short of miraculous.

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