Quotes from Anne Perry

He was one of the vast numbers of people who cannot imagine themselves into the class or gender, least of all the emotions, of a different person. That is lack of vision or sensitivity, even compassion, but it is not stupidity.

that not what love is—an enlargement of the best and a healing over of the worst?

till she found herself saying the words and singing the responses like a parrot.

There was a fear in the unknown which was too vast to find the strength to face. Everything precious and familiar was being engulfed in a spiritual void.

ruins." A flush spread up

She had always disliked him, and by the end of this morning she hated him with a vehemence that depressed and frightened her.

He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have.

We all know that things go on we'd sooner not think about, an' most folk mind their own affairs. But if yer forced ter know, then yer forced ter do summink.

without honor and kindness there are no rituals in the world that make any difference

Ignorance is something of an excuse, but not entirely. So often we do not look because if we looked we should feel obliged to do something.

When it came down to reality, what mattered except the lives of those you loved? All that was precious was made up of passions and of love, of belief in a purpose beyond the habits of living from day to day. The

Nothing at all, except that he is human, and by hanging him we diminish ourselves as well.

and every moment one expects the sky to fling a barrage from clouds so leaden they hang low across the city roofs and drown the horizon.

see nothing attractive in behaving like a fool when you don't have to.

It is a uniquely distressing experience to see yourself only through the eyes of others, too often those you have injured in some way, to know irrefutably what you have done but not why you did it, not the mitigating circumstances, the beliefs you held at the time which made your actions seem reasonable then.

Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Nearly all married women will tell you it is a blessed state, and you are to be pitied for not being in it. That is arrant nonsense. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at things yourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.

Handsome people are often extremely selfish. To be able to charm others is very dangerous to the character. It comes as a shock, sometimes an unacceptable one, to find there is something you want and you may not have it.

He had usually found children much less affected by death than adults. And it was a rare child indeed that was not inveterately inquisitive, and would have extracted from the servants every last detail that was to be had, or even invented and embroidered upon.

nonsenses to them that reminded her of

They're empty, insecure alone; they only feel real when other people listen to them and take notice.

is not the time you spend with someone, it is what happens in that time. I have known people for years, and yet never met the real person inside, if there is one. Others I have spoken with for only an hour or two, and yet what was said had meaning and honesty that will last forever.

Los hombres podían ser increíblemente tontos a veces, darse de bruces con lo evidente y aun así no verlo. Bien

Ask her her opinion of anything, and instead of judging what is appropriate to say, she will tell you what she really thinks.

I have already told you, Mr. Monk, I have no idea where my brother is. Not that I would necessarily tell you if I did. Your wife is an excellent nurse. She has rare experience in certain areas that are useful to us, and if she chose to go with him, and has not informed you, then that is her own concern.