“Luke diagnosed himself to be in love, and sought no cure for the disease.”
Sarah Perry“to live at all is to be bruised”
Sarah Perry“If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures of reason, of order!”
Sarah Perry“anything that was ever worth knowing began with once upon a time”
Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent“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?”
Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent“Besides(..), it's a poor woman whose ambition is only to be loved.”
Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent“Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?”
Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent“what use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no mire fixed than the wind”
Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent“Luke diagnosed himself to be in love, and sought no cure for the disease.”
Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent“It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage.”
Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent“Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world”
Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent