Anne Perry

“Character is what you are in the dark.”

“Truth has a habit of making an appearance when it is least welcome.”

“We all have things in our background that we don't want people to know about.”

“Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.”

“We choose our sins, so I suppose we can choose our virtues, too.”

“It is very easy to be spiritual and pious when you are not in a crisis.”

“Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.”

“I think it is a great mistake to judge a person by their worst action.”

“There is always a point when you have to stop following the rules and start following your heart.”

“Hope is the one thing you can't get rid of. It's the one thing that will always be there, no matter what.”

“The dead can't speak for themselves. It's up to us to do it for them.”

“Everyone has a secret. It’s just that some are bigger than others.”

“You don't just stop loving someone just because they're not there anymore.”

“It was a crime, and it was a terrible thing to do. I was a party to it, and I've got to live with it for the rest of my life.”

“I think fiction is a very serious thing, that it is a way of trying to understand the world.”

“Why can't you just let the past be the past?”

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.”

“Anything I had to say is in the books. In the fiction.”