A Sunless Sea Quotes

“My family, my country—right or wrong.’ It is the ultimate betrayal of God.”
― Anne Perry, A Sunless Sea

“We perform all kinds of contortions of the mind to make a reason why it isn’t really the way it looks, but we only fool the people who want to be fooled.” “Maybe I knew, and forgot,” he said, thinking back to his struggle to learn about himself, to piece together the evidence of what kind of a man he was, the good and the bad.”
― Anne Perry, A Sunless Sea

“Once I used to imagine that those in power were different, but most of them aren’t,” she went on. “No one likes to admit that their own people can be as greedy and cruel as any foreigners. We perform all kinds of contortions of the mind to make a reason why it isn’t really the way it looks, but we only fool the people who want to be fooled.”
― Anne Perry, A Sunless Sea

“One man’s sin does not justify another’s.”
― Anne Perry, A Sunless Sea

“I can’t think of anything worse than for the person you love most in the world to take their own life, without warning you, and without explaining anything at all as to why,”
― Anne Perry, A Sunless Sea