Anne Perry Quotes

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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
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.

Anne Perry
April was a deceitful month, full of brief glory, and promises it did not keep.

Anne Perry
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.

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
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.

Anne Perry
We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

Anne Perry
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

Anne Perry
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
Some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.

Anne Perry
The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

Anne Perry
Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this, or that.' 'I' am never 'you'—and my solutions may not be yours.

Anne Perry