Anne Perry
Anne Perry
Anne Perryis an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series. At the age of fifteen she was convicted of participating in the murder of her friend's mother, in 1954. She changed her name after serving her sentence...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 October 1938
country class different
Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
lying cleaners wounds
The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
believe dark light
I believe in an individual soul which travels through eternity. This life is far from all there is--in fact, it is a minute part, simply an antechamber, a deciding place where we choose the light from the dark, where we come to know what we truly value.
past differences people
I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
dream mind library
A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.
beauty pain kind
some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.
believe world inevitable
We believe world peace is inevitable.
grieving people looks
Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.
beautiful sea shadow
The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.
writing thinking people
I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.
love blessing soul
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.
lying people sin
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
pain moving space
Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.
men laughing
The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.