“You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.”
Anne Perry“We believe world peace is inevitable.”
Anne Perry“She knew in her heart that to be without optimism that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain was a fatal flaw the seed of death.”
Anne Perry“Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even to the very belief in life.”
Anne Perry“People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.”
Anne Perry“I don't expect answers from anyone. The most I ever hope for is that here and there one may find someone who at least acknowledges the question!”
Anne Perry“To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.”
Anne Perry, Tathea“People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.”
Anne Perry, Tathea“How quickly a moment sinks into the past.”
Anne Perry, No Graves As Yet“Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.”
Anne Perry, Belgrave Square“You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.”
Anne Perry, No Graves As Yet