Quotes from Anne Perry

lacks the depth, or the courage, to feel anything deeply enough to pay for it.

To be beaten was one thing, to surrender was another—and intolerable.

selfishness in others. It was ugly from every aspect, a spiritual weakness which soured every other virtue. Even courage and honesty were marred by it in the end.

A woman alone is subject to temptations of the flesh, to lightmindedness and entertainments that by their very shallowness tend to pervert the nature.

No one wants their dreams broken. Patriotism is a very powerful force.

She could understand being so in love it robbed you of your balance, your judgment of good and evil, but she could not make the leap to acting out the passion or the violence as Elissa had. There was nothing worth winning at the cost of your own being, the soul, the integrity that was the core of who you were. The act of doing such a thing made it impossible for you to hold the good, even if you could grasp it for an instant.

Every one of them had been somebody's son, somebody's friend. Grant rubbed his hands over his face and drew in a long breath, letting it out in a sigh. "Perhaps Tallis did go mad, poor bastard. I hate this more

Before you pity yourself, take a great deal closer look at others, and then decide with whom you would, or could, change places, and what sacrifice of your nature you would be prepared to make in order to do so. Knowing you as I do, I think precious little.

The very ill have little privacy, even for the most intimate of things.

It isn't what you feel, it's what you do that counts.

The kind of man one falls in love with is usually entertaining, witty, and handsome; but equally often he has no means to support one, is highly unreliable

not everything comes with an easy answer, or without a price.

Dependence can make people hate those they depend upon. It could be a complex and exhausting relationship. Often it was better to be nursed by someone whose opinion does not matter to you.

Siempre he dicho que no se puede saber qué maldades se ocultan tras el rostro cordial con que se presenta la mayoría de la gente. Algunos con aspecto de santos son verdaderos diablos.

She had never been beautiful—she had known that from the start—but she would like to have been loved, above all things. She would have to settle for being liked, perhaps for being trusted, respected.

the truth the less able you were to cope with it when it finally broke through all the barriers, like a dammed river, and carried away the careful structure of your life with it.

God only knows how many people, what families down the ages, have given their lives for their country. Don't try telling them now that they did it for an unworthy cause.

What have you? Have you anything at all that matters? Is that what comfort has given you-that you are dead at heart of self-satisfaction?

The hedge beside him was full of orange hips where the wild roses had been, and darker red clusters of berries from the hawthorns, which had been covered with white blossoms, like snowdrifts in the spring. The perfume was almost too heavy. He

Dr. Eve came into the room like a roll of distant thunder, just enough to send a chill of warning down the spine, with the knowledge of a storm to come.

Don't waste your time trying to be reasonable, men do not expect it, and it disconcerts them.

no man liked an argumentative woman—

Why is it that one does not tell people things while there is time? One lets such trivial things matter.

I do not need anyone to lead me astray! I am perfectly capable of going on my own!