13 Quotes & Sayings By Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry is an award-winning author and journalist. She was born in England and grew up in New Zealand and Australia. Her debut novel, "The Essex Serpent", won the Costa First Novel Award and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her second novel, Abe's Blind Eye, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Read more

She lives in London with her husband and their two children.

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The fear of the crowd then came to Will, with the taste of a copper penny placed on his tongue; and it was not the fear that they were under divine judgement, but that they were not, and could never be. Sarah Perry
Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world
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Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world Sarah Perry
If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place...
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If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures of reason, of order! Sarah Perry
It was necessary to be afraid in order to have...
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It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage. Sarah Perry
Luke diagnosed himself to be in love, and sought no...
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Luke diagnosed himself to be in love, and sought no cure for the disease. Sarah Perry
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What use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no mire fixed than the wind Sarah Perry
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Must we make battlegrounds out of our children? Sarah Perry
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Besides(..), it's a poor woman whose ambition is only to be loved. Sarah Perry
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To live at all is to be bruised Sarah Perry
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Just as the desperate, terminally ill cancer patient often turns to expensive placebos for an imaginary chance at more life, the desperate, terminally alive sad people turn to expensive placebos for a chance to imagine a decent life. Sarah Perry
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There was grief, too, that was certain, and she was grateful for it, since however loathed he'd been by the end, he'd formed her, at least in part - and what good ever came of self-loathing? Sarah Perry
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Anything that was ever worth knowing began with once upon a time Sarah Perry