Quotes from Anne Perry

If you drive a man to choose between death of his body or corruption of his soul, how much are you also to blame if his choice is the wrong one?

My family, my country—right or wrong.' It is the ultimate betrayal of God.

Death was pain and sickness, and terror of the long, blind, last step.

do not walk slowly simply for company—ever.

The imagination conjures so many things, and one feels the pain of them all, until one knows.

Remember, my dear, you are dealing with the world as it is, not as you believe, maybe rightly, that it ought to be. There will be a great many things you can achieve not by attacking them but with a little patience and a modicum of flattery. Stop to consider what it is you really want, rather than pursuing your anger or your vanity to charge in. So often we leap to passionate judgments—when if we but knew the one thing more, they would be so different.

He remained silent because silence was the only space large enough to hold it without crushing or bruising the heart of it.

And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds of passions in her, and high among them would be loyalty.

Everything between sunset and darkness. There is so much room for imagination. You see things in a different way from the glare of daylight. There's a richer beauty, and an awareness of how fleeting it all is, how ephemeral.

Las antiguas lealtades nunca se descartaban del todo. Narraway

He had come to believe that courage depended on knowing that there was somebody who believed in you.

His face was pale and there was a sheen of sweat on it, and his hands were rigid in his lap. If she had touched him she would have felt locked muscles.

The raw fog tasted of salt, sewage and the sour water that lies stagnant in fens and pools beyond the tide's reach. The cold seemed to penetrate the bone.

chin and nose. He wore the cap tilted at such an angle that the lower half of his face was visible, and his gap-toothed smile was the first thing one saw of him.

E comes and goes," she said guardedly. "Sometimes 'e's around fer two or free days, then 'e'll be gorn again. Mebbe gorn for weeks, mebbe back sooner. I'nt reg

If it were true, then Kristian had a far deeper and more urgent motive for killing Elissa than any of them had realized before.

Las auténticas deudas rara vez son cuestión de dinero: son de amistad, confianza, ayuda cuando más la necesitas, una mano que toma la tuya en la oscuridad cuando estás solo.

Sometimes those who cannot create enjoy the power to destroy.

Some people cannot think themselves into anyone else's pain. If they don't feel it themselves, then it isn't real.

A veces la ignorancia es una especie de salvaguarda.

very clever

You know they were never apart? He loved her so much he never grew tired of watching her, listening to her, hearing her laugh. He still found her just as fascinating, after twelve years.

windows and shone in hazy beams across the wooden panels of the walls, the floor and the carved panoply of the judge's seat.

I do not always observe the rules of society, but I am quite aware of what they are!