Callander Square Quotes

“I didn’t realize what a—comfortless thing respect is.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“But do not confuse romance with love. I know how to love.” She stood up. “I fear your romance is largely an indulgence, and indulgence is selfishness and has to be paid for.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“Do you not think sometimes we value a thing merely because we have paid for it?” she asked. “And perhaps paid too much? And so we cling to it, and go on paying?”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“Detection is not just an exercise of the mind, you know. People are real, and love and hate are dangerous.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“A great help, thank you.” Pitt calculated quickly. It must have been after ten, at this time of the year.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“Pitt did not interrupt. He seldom interrupted;”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“It’s years since I’ve been shocked,”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“am surprised your mother has not given you the same advice.” Christina stared at her. “She has, she has done for years. I pay no attention. One’s mother is always giving one good advice.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“Don’t waste your time trying to be reasonable, men do not expect it, and it disconcerts them.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“The kind of man one falls in love with is usually entertaining, witty, and handsome; but equally often he has no means to support one, is highly unreliable,”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“The working classes were often the same, give them a chance to idle and they’d take it with both hands. Still, couldn’t blame them entirely. Their life was gray enough. He would have done the same.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“What was presumed and what was actually known were two entirely different things.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“After all, what healthy man, woken in his bed in the morning by a young, clear-skinned, well-rounded wench bending over him, would not be tempted?”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“He had usually found children much less affected by death than adults. And it was a rare child indeed that was not inveterately inquisitive, and would have extracted from the servants every last detail that was to be had, or even invented and embroidered upon.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“What we do not pay for in some way, unfortunately we tend not to regard in its true worth.” She smiled to soften the words a little. Jemima frowned. “Do you not think sometimes we value a thing merely because we have paid for it?” she asked. “And perhaps paid too much? And so we cling to it, and go on paying?”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“the day mankind learns to profit from the lessons of history I shall look for the Second Coming.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“Ask her her opinion of anything, and instead of judging what is appropriate to say, she will tell you what she really thinks.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“People do such strange things to cover guilt. We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square