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

--

Source : Anne Perry (2010). “A Sudden, Fearful Death: A William Monk Novel”, p.14, Ballantine Books

Anne Perry

#Hurt Quotes #Trying Quotes #Way Quotes

“If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.”
“Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?”
“I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with this analysis, to accept the trifles of life and be content with them, as many others do.”
“When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.”
“The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.”
“God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.”
“Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.”
“Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.”

You may also like:

Barbara Mertz
Author
Charles Dickens
Writer
Ed McBain
Author
Elizabeth George
Author
Louise Penny
Author
Mary Higgins Clark
Author
Otto Penzler
Editor
Patricia Cornwell
Crime writer
Sue Grafton
Author