“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
―
Anne Perry,
The Whitechapel Conspiracy
“Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a lot longer than romance. You can fall out of love, as well in. Most of us do, especially if you don’t actually like the person as well. It doesn’t always grow into love by any means, but sometimes it does.” ― Anne Perry, Pentecost Alley
“I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out a hand in desperation.” ― Thomas Perry
“but old wounds don’t stop aching. They are always under the surface, ready to remind one of the original injuries.” ― Anne Perry, Treachery at Lancaster Gate
“Bombs were not just weapons. They were something more, expressions of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior - what you would see, even what you would think and feel. He'd staged a presentation designed to fool you. He didn't even know your name, but you were the one he was really after. Bombs were acts of murder, but they were also jokes on you, riddles the bomber hoped were too tough for you, chances for you to pick wrong when it was almost impossible to pick right.” ― Thomas Perry
“What’s always right?” “Kindness,” Pitt answered with certainty. “Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.” ― Anne Perry, The Angel Court Affair
“We need our marks, our small illusions; few of us can bear to go naked into the world's gaze. And people will kill to keep their clothes.” ― Anne Perry, Silence in Hanover Close
“Holy shit! It wasn't them; it was him!” ― Thomas Perry, Sleeping Dogs
“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
“corruption begets corruption.” He heard the bitterness he felt very clearly in his voice. “That’s what I hate about it most, the contagion of it. Men who could have been good become tainted, and the more of it there is the harder it is to survive without being touched by it. If you give people power, sooner or later they are tempted to abuse it. It takes a very strong man not to, a man wise enough to see its price, brave enough to go against the tide, and he can pay dearly for it.” Narraway” ― Anne Perry, Long Spoon Lane
“I am not. I am certain of the things that matter. Kindness and honor are always good. Do not build God in your own image, with your doubts and fears, your need to judge and condemn, your need for safety, and to be right whatever the cost to others, and ultimately to yourself. Let your soul be still, and know that God is never capricious, never cruel and never wrong. It is our understanding that stumbles. Even the cleverest of us are yet children, and the wisest of us know that.” ― Anne Perry, The Angel Court Affair
“Nathaniel whistled in approval and widened his eyes. “Thomas, you look quite dashing. You know you really didn’t have to dress up like that for me.” He smiled at his own joke and slapped Thomas on the shoulder. “You don’t look too terrible, yourself,” Thomas said as they each took a seat in front of the hearth. “Well, I donned my best suit as you can see.” Thomas smirked. “I noticed.” ― Amber Lynn Perry, So Fair a Lady
“Here in England there’s a glass wall between you and the taste of reality. I don’t want to see the last true passion tamed by railways, and men with Bibles telling everyone to cover their bodies.” He spread his powerful, elegant hands. “Play your string quintets, by all means, Mr. Narraway, but don’t silence the drums simply because you don’t understand them. The men who play violins have steel and gunpowder, and the men who play drums don’t.” ― Anne Perry, Buckingham Palace Gardens
“same” ― Thomas Perry, A String of Beads
“The women sang the Ohgiwe and danced together as the grandmothers had, for the brave, and the unselfish, for the protectors.” ― Thomas Perry, Dance for the Dead
“People take charge and then you find out what they wanted power for.” ― Thomas Perry, Eddie's Boy
“Perhaps it is because my conviction is anyone may believe whatever they wish. Intolerance is a greater offense against God than holding a strange or even inconsistent belief. You have the right to worship what you wish - a pile of stones in your garden - as long as you do not injure others.” ― Anne Perry, The Angel Court Affair
“He was perfectly capable of looking after himself, although after his marriage he had lost the knack for it. He missed the comfort of all the small things Charlotte did for him,but these were nothing compared to the loneliness. There was no one to talk to, with whom to share his feelings, to laugh, or to simply speak of the day.And he missed the sound of the children's voices, giggling, their running footsteps, their incessant questions and demands for his attention or approval. No one interrupted to say "Look at me, Papa" or "What is this for?" or "What does this mean?" or the favorite "Why?" Peace was not peace anymore, it was simply silence.” ― Anne Perry, Half Moon Street
“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?” ― Anne Perry, Belgrave Square
“Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a lot longer than romance. You can fall out of love, as well in. Most of us do, especially if you don’t actually like the person as well. It doesn’t always grow into love by any means, but sometimes it does.” ― Anne Perry, Pentecost Alley
“I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out a hand in desperation.” ― Thomas Perry
“but old wounds don’t stop aching. They are always under the surface, ready to remind one of the original injuries.” ― Anne Perry, Treachery at Lancaster Gate
“Bombs were not just weapons. They were something more, expressions of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior - what you would see, even what you would think and feel. He'd staged a presentation designed to fool you. He didn't even know your name, but you were the one he was really after. Bombs were acts of murder, but they were also jokes on you, riddles the bomber hoped were too tough for you, chances for you to pick wrong when it was almost impossible to pick right.” ― Thomas Perry
“What’s always right?” “Kindness,” Pitt answered with certainty. “Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.” ― Anne Perry, The Angel Court Affair
“We need our marks, our small illusions; few of us can bear to go naked into the world's gaze. And people will kill to keep their clothes.” ― Anne Perry, Silence in Hanover Close
“Holy shit! It wasn't them; it was him!” ― Thomas Perry, Sleeping Dogs
“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
“corruption begets corruption.” He heard the bitterness he felt very clearly in his voice. “That’s what I hate about it most, the contagion of it. Men who could have been good become tainted, and the more of it there is the harder it is to survive without being touched by it. If you give people power, sooner or later they are tempted to abuse it. It takes a very strong man not to, a man wise enough to see its price, brave enough to go against the tide, and he can pay dearly for it.” Narraway” ― Anne Perry, Long Spoon Lane
“I am not. I am certain of the things that matter. Kindness and honor are always good. Do not build God in your own image, with your doubts and fears, your need to judge and condemn, your need for safety, and to be right whatever the cost to others, and ultimately to yourself. Let your soul be still, and know that God is never capricious, never cruel and never wrong. It is our understanding that stumbles. Even the cleverest of us are yet children, and the wisest of us know that.” ― Anne Perry, The Angel Court Affair
“Nathaniel whistled in approval and widened his eyes. “Thomas, you look quite dashing. You know you really didn’t have to dress up like that for me.” He smiled at his own joke and slapped Thomas on the shoulder. “You don’t look too terrible, yourself,” Thomas said as they each took a seat in front of the hearth. “Well, I donned my best suit as you can see.” Thomas smirked. “I noticed.” ― Amber Lynn Perry, So Fair a Lady
“Here in England there’s a glass wall between you and the taste of reality. I don’t want to see the last true passion tamed by railways, and men with Bibles telling everyone to cover their bodies.” He spread his powerful, elegant hands. “Play your string quintets, by all means, Mr. Narraway, but don’t silence the drums simply because you don’t understand them. The men who play violins have steel and gunpowder, and the men who play drums don’t.” ― Anne Perry, Buckingham Palace Gardens
“same” ― Thomas Perry, A String of Beads
“The women sang the Ohgiwe and danced together as the grandmothers had, for the brave, and the unselfish, for the protectors.” ― Thomas Perry, Dance for the Dead
“People take charge and then you find out what they wanted power for.” ― Thomas Perry, Eddie's Boy
“Perhaps it is because my conviction is anyone may believe whatever they wish. Intolerance is a greater offense against God than holding a strange or even inconsistent belief. You have the right to worship what you wish - a pile of stones in your garden - as long as you do not injure others.” ― Anne Perry, The Angel Court Affair
“He was perfectly capable of looking after himself, although after his marriage he had lost the knack for it. He missed the comfort of all the small things Charlotte did for him,but these were nothing compared to the loneliness. There was no one to talk to, with whom to share his feelings, to laugh, or to simply speak of the day.And he missed the sound of the children's voices, giggling, their running footsteps, their incessant questions and demands for his attention or approval. No one interrupted to say "Look at me, Papa" or "What is this for?" or "What does this mean?" or the favorite "Why?" Peace was not peace anymore, it was simply silence.” ― Anne Perry, Half Moon Street
“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?” ― Anne Perry, Belgrave Square
