75 Quotes by Sarah Perry

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    I think it possible to put flesh on the bones of our terrors, most of all when we have turned our back on God.

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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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    Luke diagnosed himself to be in love, and sought no cure for the disease.

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    Everything before it was prologue: everything after, a footnote.

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    All the obligations and comforts of womanhood seem to have nothing to do with me now. I’m not sure how I am supposed to behave and I’m not sure I would, if I knew.

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    Sometimes the greed and malice of what he sees appalls him so much he thinks he must’ve misunderstood; he looks again, and it’s worse than he thought.

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    No librarians yet at their post, the ranks of desks miserably empty, like sockets from which teeth had been pulled.

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

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    Every aspect of meaning is characterized by illusion.

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